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.