
WH Auden
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Broigle's Icarus - A Conversational Opening
In broigle's icarus, for instance, how everything turns away leisurely from the disaster. The ploughman may have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, but for him it was not an important failure. And where's icarus? If you look closely, you can see a small splash in the nearby body of water and two flail legs about to sink beneath the surface. But it makes sense that is called landscape with the fall of icarus, because even the billing makes icarus sound like an afterthought.
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