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Read the full text of Yeats's famous poem about the rape of Leda by a swan, inspired by Greek mythology. The poem explores themes of violence, transformation, and the power of art.
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The poem, ‘Leda and the Swan’ by William Butler Yeats, talks about the story of Greek mythology, the Copulation of Zeus (or Jupiter), and Leda. The poet narrates the story vividly, dramatically, and with almost a Dantesque concentration. A big bird, a swan with great wings has been represented as giving a sudden and staggering blow to the girl (Led...
The fourteen lines of this sonnet are divisible into three quatrains (of four lines each) and a couplet(two lines). The sonnet is a dramatic and picturesque presentation of the sexual act between Leda, a mortal beautiful maiden, and Zeus (Jupiter), a god in Greek mythology that was in the form of a big bird: a Swan.
‘Leda and the Swan’ is a sonnet considered one of the most perfect poems of W.B. Yeats. This artistic perfection, as Ellman has pointed out, was achieved by the poet not spontaneously but through at least six stages of revision and modification. It now stands as the final fusion of history mythand vision, the force and richness of which arise from ...
William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, at Sandymount near Dublin in Ireland. Though Yeats’s real interest lay in poetry, he started writing play after play with fantastic and incoherent plots, e.g. The Islands of Statutes, The Seeker, Mosado, etc. Fed up with this fad of playwriting, he explored theosophy, Platonism, Neo-Platonism, and Ros...
Read the poem and the analysis of Leda and the Swan, a sonnet by W.B. Yeats based on the Greek myth of Zeus and Leda. Learn about the poet, the story, the themes, and the literary devices used in this poem.
A comprehensive guide to William Butler Yeats's retelling of the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan, a sonnet that explores the themes of sex, violence, fate, and history. Download the full text of the poem as a PDF or read the line-by-line explanation, symbol analysis, and poetic devices.
"Leda and the Swan" depicts an act of rape. The poem’s graphic imagery leaves no doubt that Zeus, in the form of a swan, violently assaults Leda. At the same time, however, the poem seems to revel in sensuality even as it lays bare the brutality of Leda’s rape and its equally brutal consequence—the Trojan War. This ambiguous depiction of
LEDA AND THE SWAN 1 A sudden blow: the great wings beating still 2 Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed 3 By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, 4 He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. 5 How can those terrified vague fingers push 6 The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? 7 And how can body, laid in that white rush,
Emma-Sofie Söderlund. Álthough Leda and the Swan serves as a critique of the colonial endeavour, a deeper analysis offers a reading that renders visible the multiple ways in which the poem undermines colonial resistance by reinforcing a colonial discourse. See Full PDF. Download PDF.
Leda and the Swan William Butler Yeats A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that ...
