Basing yourself on class notes oron your own interpretation, discusses how MacEwen’s “Icarus” can be interpretedas an allegory about the role of the artist. How is Icarus presented as an artist figure? Furthermore, comment on how the poem can be interpreted as both a warning about the dangers of rejecting poetic conventions and conversely, as a celebration of poets who engage in the potentially risky business of creating unconventional poetry. (When responding to the second part of the question, be sure to begin by explaining why writing unconventional poetry can indeed be a risk.)
McEwen’s “Cirrus’can be interpreted as a role of the artist. Icarus’s wings made of wax and feather, which are only hisproperties. The wings seem to be the poetry’s “quill” (13) as a part of his/her life. Life has binary adventures. For writers, sometimes, they meet writing blocks; sometimes, they create good works. Icarus’s father’s “warning” is “not to fly too close to the sun, which might melt the max.” If a writer soars too high, when he/she falls on the ground, the injury is very serious. If you fly too close to the sea, which might get his feather wet, is also not good. Either too high or too low is not “a flimsy parallel” (25). Writing like a life is hard to conquer alldifficulties or solve all problems.
For unconventional poem, generally, in the long period of history, people get used to be several sets of traditional rules. When unconventional things appear, they might meet rejections. First, people have inadequate knowledge of it; second, people do not adapt to it; third, people do not have confidence with it. On the contrary, they are not sure whether the unconventional thing is right or not, good or bad. Commonly, an unconventional poetry can be a risk. It may meet many disagreements or oppositions. It changes readers’ point of view when the people accept it.
