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“Should it matter that Neither Shepard nor farmer with his plow watched him fall?” Is a symbol for any person or bystander. It isn’t really meaning a farmer.

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Would it have been better to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden forever.

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“Wasn’t flight both an escape and a great uplifting” and “He flew precisely to the point of wisdom”.

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“As a result, flight for him was not upward escape, but descent, with his wings disintegrating around him.”

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“Would it have been better to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden.” This is asking whether is it better to take a risk and find knowledge or just play it safe.

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“Cushion enough for what he wanted.” This symbolizes that even though his story ended, he now had learned answers, and as he fell to his doom, he had achieved the answers and wisdom he hadn’t had before.

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But at last in his anticipated plummeting he grasped the confines of what had been his liberty.

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Brooke and Dishan

"He flew precisely to the point of wisdom”

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“But at last in his anticipated plummeting he grasped the confines of what had been his liberty.”

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But at last in his anticipated plummeting he grasped the confines of what had been his liberty.

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“But at last in his anticipated plummeting, he grasped the confines of what had been his liberty.” This is a metaphor because it compares his disintegrating wings to his disappearing liberty without using like or as.

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So he flew upward and the sun dissolved the wax and he fell.
This is imagery because it paints a picture in your head of Icarus falling.

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“Would it have been better to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden forever?”

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Would it have been better to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden forever

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“As a result, flight for him was not upward escape, but descent, with his wings disintegrating around him.”

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“As a result, flight for him was not upward escape, but descent, with his wings disintegrating.” This imagery gives the reader a visual image of Icarus with wings in the sky, slowly descending because of the wings are falling apart.

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“Cushion enough for what he wanted”

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Listen to your elders and do not get overconfident.

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Cushion enough for what he wanted.

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What else could the boy have done? Wasn’t flight both an escape and a great uplifting

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“He flew precisely to the point of wisdom.”
This is a figur of Speech because you can’t actually fly to wisdom.

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The wings symbolize escape and freedom because when datalys and Icarus were trapped in the tower, the only hope was the only hope was their wings

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“Would it have been better to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden forever?” This is symbolizing that he wanted freedom and wanted to take risks.

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“Would it have been better to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden forever?” This statement helps support the overall tone/theme of the poem. The theme/tone of the poem is that sometimes you take risks, sometime from ignorance, and not all risks turn out the way you wanted it to happen, and dreadful things can happen, but even so, you learn from your mistakes. But, Icarus is died and doesn’t get a second chance. :(

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Cushion enough for what he wanted.

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The theme is that you should listen to what you elders tell you, and that you should be cautious. Also that sometimes finding knowlege and taking risks come with a cost.

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“He grasped the confines of what had been his liberty

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Would it have been better to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden forever

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Listen to your elders and evaluate your strengths.

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Listen to your elders.

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“But at last in his anticipated plummeting he grasped the confines of what had been his liberty.” Because when Icarus is grasping on to his wings, it says that they are his .liberty

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Always listen to your elders and when taking risks, you don’t always get a positive outcome.