Lookout Landing · Sep 27, 2021
Landscape with the Fall of Ohtani, Mariners win 5-1
Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY Sports An ekphrastic poem is a poem inspired by or describing a work of art, and no source of ekphrastic poetry is more well known than the 16th-century painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, thought to be from the school of Bruegel. The painting depicts the fall of Icarus, the mythological figure who fell from the sky on wax wings contrived by his father Daedalus. It’s a story about the perils of ambition that goes against the natural order of things, the moral being not to fly too close to the sun. It’s also a pretty good metaphor for today’s game.