Which lines from the poem BEST portray the theme? A.
"'Drowned,' but it was wrong: Icarus / Had swum away, coming at last to the city"

B.
“They would have answered with a shocked, / uncomprehending stare.”

C.
“Can the genius of the hero fall / To the middling stature of the merely talented?”

D.
“Constructs small wings and tries to fly / To the lighting fixture on the ceiling:”

Icarus

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,
5 And the witnesses ran off.
So the report filed and forgotten in the archives read simply
“Drowned,” but it was wrong: Icarus
Had swum away, coming at last to the city
Where he rented a house and tended the garden.
10 “That nice Mr. Hicks” the neighbors called,
Never dreaming that the gray, respectable suit
Concealed arms that had controlled huge wings
Nor that those sad, defeated eyes had once
Compelled the sun. And had he told them
15 They would have answered with a shocked,
uncomprehending stare.
No, he could not disturb their neat front yards;
Yet all his books insisted that this was a horrible mistake:
What was he doing aging in a suburb?
20 Can the genius of the hero fall
To the middling stature of the merely talented?
And nightly Icarus probes his wound
And daily in his workshop, curtains carefully drawn,
Constructs small wings and tries to fly
25 To the lighting fixture on the ceiling:
Fails every time and hates himself for trying.
He had thought himself a hero, had acted heroically,
And dreamt of his fall, the tragic fall of the hero;
But now rides commuter trains,
30 Serves on various committees,
And wishes he had drowned.