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"Icarus's Flight"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Attitude of the poet | Admiring |
| The theme of "Icarus's Flight" | Test your limits to learn what's possible |
| The text device or structure of the poem is... | question and answer |
| Paraphrase: "his anticipated plummeting" | He knew he was going to fall. |
| Paraphrase: "the exact point where freedom stopped" | to the point that he could not fly any higher |
| Paraphrase: "What else could the boy have done?" | There is nothing he could have done |
| What is unusual about the structure on the poem? | The sentences extend from one stanza into the next. |
| Paraphrase: "to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden" | doing the same thing over and over can be boring and mundane |
| What did Icarus gain from his flight? | wisdom |
| Paraphrase: "cushion for what he wanted" | the wisdom/knowledge he gained |