Ο ΜΥΘΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΙΚΑΡΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΕΧΝΗ

Ο ΜΥΘΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΙΚΑΡΟΥ* ΣΤΗΝ ΤΕΧΝΗ

Η  έλληνική μυθολογία είναι μια διαρκής πηγή έμπνευσης για όλους τους καλλιτέχνες του κόσμου. Η Ποίηση και η Ζωγραφική αντιπροσωπεύονται  σήμερα στο blog μας εμπνευσμένες από τον τραγικό  μύθο του Ικάρου, του παλικαριού που "κάηκε" προσπαθώντας να αγγίξει το ανέφικτο.

Δύο γνωστοί αγγλοσάξονες ποιητές

εστιάζουν το βλέμμα τους στο διάσημο

πίνακα του Μπρίγκελ "Τοπίο με την πτώση

του Ίκαρου".

*ΣΧΕΤΙΚΑ ΜΕ ΤΟ ΜΥΘΟ ΤΟΥ ΙΚΑΡΟΥ  ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΕΔΩ

Pieter Bruegel (περίπου1525-69), "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
"Τοπίο με την πτώση του Ίκαρου" (1558)

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1. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

 by

William Carlos Williams 
(1883-1963)

According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning 
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Herbert James Draper (1863-1920) , 

"The Lament for Icarus" (Ο θρήνος για τον  Ίκαρο)

2. Musee des Beaux Arts

by

W. H. Auden
(1907-1973)

About suffering they were never wrong,

The old Masters: how well they understood

Its human position: how it takes place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting

For the miraculous birth, there always must be

Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating

On a pond at the edge of the wood:

They never forgot

That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course

Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot

Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse

Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.