![]() "So fly took a bullet in the wax wing / So high but didn't get the chance to melt / So tight how when he came down didn’t even look scared "Īerials (album) "You think I am weak 'til your strength starts to go / and you reach for my hand as I take to the sky / my father, I've waited and awful long time for this - / rot in your labyrinth, I have learned to fly." ![]() I wanna be by your side, even if I burn black" The Day (album) "With a mountain of maybes And some Icarus wings" "Flight of Icarus, down into flames." & "Daedalus, your child is falling and the Labyrinth is calling." respectivelyĪ Head Full of Dreams (album) - "'I know it's over,' Icarus says to the sun"Ĭontemporary opera based on the Icarus myth (Featuring James Dooley) Soundtrack for the Voices in my Head Vol. My Calm, Your Storm (album) "I mount up with waxen wings, high to reach the sun" "We flew too high let the sun burn our wings" "For You Will Burn Your Wings upon the Sun" Main Theme - Deus Ex: Human Revolution Soundtrack "Watch me fly into the sun, I want to be like Icarus" Wings (album) - "many references to Icarus in the Music video" The Lakeside Sessions ".though Icarus flew near the sun and fell" This interpretation is supported by a different version of the myth, in which Daedalus and Icarus escaped from Crete by sailing ship, and Icarus’ ship was wrecked off Samos.Table info: Artist, Title, Date, Album/Note. Marie Delcourt, on the other hand, holds that flying symbolises the peak of Daedalus’ achievements in gaining such a high level of technical knowledge.įinally, according to yet another interpretation of the myth, flight could symbolise the great speed of a sailing ship, also considered an invention of Daedalus. Neither too high near the sun, nor too low near the sea, Daedalus counselled, but Icarus paid no heed and his immoderation cost him his life. The didactic character of the myth of Icarus is obvious: the recklessness and thoughtlessness of young men who ignore the advice and experience of their parents, and their elders and betters in general, may have catastrophic effects on their lives.Īlso, there must be measure in all our lives. The myth of Icarus - Various interpretations Icarus’ lifeless body was recognised by Hercules, who delivered it to Daedalus. This was named Icaria in his honour, and the sea around the island was called the Icarian Sea. Icarus fell into the sea near Samos and his body was washed ashore on a nearby islet. When Daedalus realised that his son was not following him as he had asked him to, he began frantically searching for him. He climbed high in the sky, so high that the sun melted the wax, the wings fell apart and Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. Icarus agreed, but he was so thrilled with flying that he got carried away and turned it into a game, ignoring his father’s advice. If, on the other hand, he flew too close to the sun, the heat would melt the wax and destroy the wings. He warned him that if he flew too close to the sea, the spray would soak the feathers, making the wings useless. Icarus tragic deathīefore the flight, Daedalus gave his young son Icarus instructions in how to fly. They used these to fly from their prison, the first flight in history, two thousand years before the Wright Brothers. The cunning Daedalus, however, found a way to escape: he made two pairs of wings from feathers and wax, one for himself and one for Icarus. Icarus and his father Daedalus were imprisoned in the Labyrinth by King Minos, as punishment for the help Daedalus gave Queen Pasiphae and Ariadne, daughter of Minos.
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