Both poets composed these poems with the poetic techniques. By means of sense devices the poets described the events clearly especially William Carlos William describing "The Fall of Icarus."
William portrayed the surrounding when Icarus was falling. It was in spring which everything was rebirth. Atmosphere should be beautiful. It should not have any diaster. The poet used the image of sight to emphasise the fall of Icarus by irony between "spring" and "the fall."
it was spring
William used the image of second in the sixteenth line to emphasise that people around the disaster should hear and could help Icarus in that time.
this was
Icarus drowning
Besides, between the thirteenth to fifteenth lines, there is the image of touch.
that melted
Moreover, in both poetry, there is an irony of situation. Due to the fact that there are important events among the crowd, but none of them pay attention to them even animals.
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