analysis please

[bebemala]

I'm trying to understand this poem. i think this poem is mostly about regret
because it telling us that icarus wished he had listen to his father advice. please help me understand this poem....




Icarus

By Wendy A. Shaffer


Did Icarus,
falling,
watching white feathers flutter upward,
curse the wax as a fair-weather friend?
It seemed such a strong solid type,
but it melted away
when things got hot.

Did he rail at the sun,
which beckoned enticingly,
and then changed from a beacon to a furnace?

Did he blame Daedalus, his father?
Who warned him not to fly too high
in the same distracted tones with which
he admonished his son
to put on a sweater in the cold,
to eat his lima beans,
to not run with scissors.
How could he have known that this time the old man really meant it?

Or did he regret that the illustrious inventor,
when creating his flying apparatus,
did not take the obvious next step:
the emergency parachute?

He must have thought
all of this
and more.

It was
a long
long
fall.

But as he neared the ocean,
came close enough to wave to the startled fishermen in their boats,
he laughed,
and admitted
that even had he known
of the many failings of fathers and feathers,
he would have done it anyway.

[OrphanPip]

What do you think of it?

[bebemala]

What do you think of it?

icarus is blaming his father for his fall

[OrphanPip]

Ha I don't think so.

What do you think about the tone? Do you find the poem serious or humorous?

What do you think of the mixing of modern images, like parachutes, with the Greek myth of Icarus?

I would also suggest reading up on traditional interpretations of the myth of Icarus.

[JBI]

Don't you think people have better things to do than to give you their interpretation for your homework because you popped onto a public forum and asked for it?

Now, if you wish to hold a discussion, I wouldn't be adverse to sharing my opinions, but as it is, you have illegally pasted a poem here, with what would seem the sole intention of plagiarizing others' opinions for your assignment.