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'I, Icarus by Alden Nowlan trances atomic number 18 the perfect worlds for all of us for woolgathers pay off us the chances to possess the goals we are disposition for that we might not be sufficient to have in reality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a kn possess German writer, artist, and politician, expresses his perspective to the highest degree dreamings: â€Å"Dream no slim dreams for they have no power to move hearts of custody”. Through â€Å"I, Icarus”- one of the poems in the compendium Bread, Wine and Salt by Alden Nowlan, we readers willing get to k straight his childhood’s vivid dream.Alden Nowlan produces a striking imprint that leaves deep impressions in readers’ minds right at the beginning of the poem with its title â€Å"I, Icarus”. As to my understanding, the title refers to Greek myth which is approximately Icarus- the son of the master craftsman. Icarus’s suffer constructed two pairs of wings from feathers and wax for the mean of escaping Crete, and also warned him not to fly too close to the sun. Ignoring his father’s caution, Icarus seek to reach the sun, which resulted the wax to melt and appeal him his own life.Through the title’s allusion and Nowlan’s act of putting â€Å"I” in front of the name â€Å"Icarus”, readers get nigh hints that this poem might be some other(a) story of harmful fall caused by over-ambition. After a few start times reading â€Å"I, Icarus”, readers might superficially interpret the meaning to be about a evanescent dream, in so far if we grind deeper, we will be able to turn over the yearning to reach a top-notch dimension of Nowland. As a subject field of fact, Alden Nowland was born in a small village in Nova Scotia; the constrictions had influenced him to foster the dream of breaking free to seek his own prospects.Nowland reflects back to his childhood and imagines he was flying beyond all the restri ctions that had been confining him. nonetheless though fictional elements play the chief(prenominal) role in the strong poem, Nowland’s detailed description and firm assumption â€Å"There was a time when I could fly. I swear it. â€Å"(1), â€Å"I go up slowly…toward the window” (9-12) have soundly convinced readers that he could really fly. The nonliteral and imaginativeness has been utilized intriguingly as an analogy to represent the country life of Nowland’s childhood.Like a gentle sheep, Nowland is penned inside the terminus ad quem of the â€Å"pasture fence” (13); â€Å"the music of flutes” (16) is compete by the shepherd to lure and set up him to be satisfied with this confinement. On the other hand, the sheep himself is eager to go on an chance to explore the mysterious space lavatory â€Å"the dark, the follow trees” (14), thus wishes it could fly to waste â€Å"beyond the pasture” (15). To another ex tent, the imagery of the countryside does not only indicate feelings of confinement, hardly also evokes senses of peace and secure.Even though Nowland †the â€Å"sheep” †has the feelings of world restricted by the constrictions of this small town, it soothe brings back to him safety that protects him from the perils behind â€Å"the dark, the haunted trees” (14). Standing outside Nature, enjoying the harmonious melodies of an Aeolian harp †â€Å"the music of the flutes” that â€Å"the wind do” (16- 17) falling in line in concert with â€Å"voices singing”, Nowland becomes intimate with Nature and his dear hometown.In brief, â€Å"I, Icarus” has reflected successfully Nowland’s complex emotions and currents of thoughts; he cherishes his great ambitions to escape from restrictions and explore a whole new world outside, yet still be attached to his acquainted(predicate) homeland which provides him extreme protections and harmony. Relating the context of the whole poem to its own title â€Å"I, Icarus”, readers now realize that it’s not a story about Nowland’s catastrophic fall as Icarus, but his wonders whether he should be a risk-taker to pursue his dream of reaching the sun or pull through a peaceful and ordinary life.\r\n'