by WH Auden Auden's poem is one of the most famous examples of ekphrasis: the recreation in words of a work of art. It describes Pieter Brueghel's painting Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, in which a man falls from the sky, but "the white legs disappearing into the green/Water" are made incidental to the scene. The ploughman goes on ploughing and the ship sails past.from The Guardian: Ten of the best: examples of ekphrasis
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