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Landscape With Icarus
A world so beautiful has a small detail of death. Through the magnificent art of Pieter Brueghel, he has shown an artwork that is named “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”. It has inspired a poet named William Carlos Williams write his view with the world of the painting called “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”. Even though the poem and the paint resent around a similar area, each represents a different tone, mood, and theme as they differ from one another.

To begin, the mood that is seen throughout the poem and the painting diverse in their diversity. Were in the painting, the viewers would look through their view of experience that could mutate their work like many visual art. While in the poem, the writer wrote in a way to follow his

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