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[bcrmbst]

 I believe that Icarus declares that he "isn't sorry" due to the sheer joy of being a part of the aerial world, representing immense freedom. Some may declare a need for him to feel remorse due to a variety of reasons: for getting such pleasure from an activity most humans can't do; for daring to fly in the first place; for partaking in something so useless when others are stuck with mundane work. He observes that "on the shore/the farmer plows his field, the dull ship/sails away, the poets moralize about our/unsignificance." All of these people are performing normal tasks, tasks that are expected of all members of society. But Icarus is not sorry for breaking from this path, and I do not believe that he should be. While the myth of Icarus, which ends with his curiosity causing death, is meant as a cautionary tale against hot-headedness, I consider that message to be wrong, and believe exploration as a youth to be a vital part of the human experience. Admittedly, as one of those youths, I have a strong bias here, but I do not believe that a young man with a great degree of freedom has any obligation to feel sorry about refusing to restrict himself.