Robert J. Lindley, 4-27-2019
Sonnet, ( Where Wisdom In Mythology May Yet Be Revealed )
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( " they that soar in and out of my night dreams*
are foes of Fate and its accursed wrath*
winging across starlit skies, sailing high jet streams*
ever seeking to alter mankind's doomed path*)
Note:
1. *Icarian
of Icarius fame,
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I·car·i·an
/i'kere?n/
adjective
relating to or characteristic of Icarus, especially in being excessively ambitious.
"an Icarian mentality that could only lead to a crash and burn"
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2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarians
The Icarian movement was inspired by an 1840 utopian novel by Étienne Cabet, Voyage en Icarie (Voyage to Icaria).
Icarus. Icarus, in Greek mythology, son of the inventor Daedalus who perished by flying too near the Sun with waxen wings. See Daedalus.
Icarus | Greek mythology | Britannica.com
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Icarus-Greek-mythology
3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus
Icarus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Icarus (disambiguation).
Jacob Peter Gowy's The Flight of Icarus (1635–1637)
Icarus and Daedalus ancient red relief plastic pottery beaker, Roman-Greece
In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ancient Greek: ?καρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare[1]) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus' father warns him first of complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly neither too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog his wings nor the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun; when the wax in his wings melted he tumbled out of the sky and fell into the sea where he drowned, sparking the idiom "don't fly too close to the sun".
This tragic theme of failure at the hands of hubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon.