1. Lines 10–12: What have readers learned so far about Daedalus? What evidence in the text hints that he may have unusual or supernatural powers? 2. Lines 4–12: What do Daedalus and Icarus want?

3. Lines 15–29: Summarize what Daedalus does to help himself and his son escape from the island.

4. Lines 39–47: What specific evidence in these lines suggests Daedalus’s plan will not go well?

5. Lines 57–63: Myths typically include events that cannot happen in real life and characters with unusual abilities. What specific evidence in the text illustrates these two aspects of a myth?

6. Lines 60–79: What causes Icarus’s fall? What does his failure reveal about the cultural values of the ancient Greeks?

7. Lines 88–95: Did Daedalus succeed or fail in his original goal? What might this reveal about a life lesson or theme?

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man