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A Picture By Brueghel: Landscape With Icarus Falling

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(contra Auden)

by Shane Rhodes

Published in the May 2005 issue.  » BUY ISSUE     

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Brueghel was right—
everyone sees
nothing at least
once in the life
of a tragedy.
To the left,
in the painting,
a tenant farmer
walks behind a horse—
four centuries
of ploughing
and not once
has he dropped
his seed.
The light here
will be taken
without footnote
by Monet.
Yet the fallen
boy beating

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