The final stanza of williams’s poem, “landscape with the fall of icarus” is about the painting landscape with the fall of icarus by peter brueghel. the poem ends with: "a splash quite unnoticed/this was/icarus drowning." using these three lines, predict what you think the theme of the poem could be. after you have written down 2-3 ideas, use the web to briefly research icarus and brueghel and write a paragraph about what you learn about the theme of the poem in your journal.