William Carlos Williams

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

According to Brueghel

when Icarus fell

it was spring

a farmer was ploughing

his field

the whole pageantry

of the year was

awake tingling

near

the edge of the sea

concerned

with itself

sweating in the sun

that melted

the wings' wax

unsignificantly

off the coast

there was

a splash quite unnoticed

this was

Icarus drowning 

Paisaje con la caída de Ícaro de Brueghel

PAISAJE CON LA CAÍDA DE ÍCARO

Según Brueghel

cuando Ícaro cayó

era primavera;

un agricultor araba

su campo

—todo el esplendor

del año despertaba

hormigueante—

cerca

de la orilla del mar,

ocupado

con lo suyo,

sudando bajo el sol

que había derretido

la cera de las alas;

intrascendente

junto a la costa

hubo un chapoteo

bastante inadvertido:

era

Ícaro ahogándose.