How the author employs literary devices in adapting the Icarus myth to a contemporary setting from excerpt Only the feathers floating around the hat Showed that anything more spectacular had occurred Than the usual drowning. The police preferred to ignore The confusing aspects of the case, And the witnesses ran off to a gang war
So the report filed and forgotten in the archives read simply "Drowning," but it was wrong: Icarus Had swum away, coming at last to the city Where he rented a house and tended the garden.