Leda and The Swan
By: William Butler Yeats
(1923)
A sudden blow: the great fly beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her befuddled breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered rain cloud from her loosening thighs?
And how can a body, laid in that unclouded rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So bring down the hang by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his familiarity with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats is based on a classical myth. The account statement reveals the rape of a young woman by a mould. Leda was the wife of Tynadareus, the daughter of Thestios, and the mother of Castor, Clytemnestra, Pollux, and Helen. In this song the Greek god Zeus takes the form of a swan and has his elan with Leda. The rape produces two children (Pollux and Helen). Yeats uses this Greek myth and numerous literary devices throughout him poem in order to create a tone, establish a sonnet form, convey vivid images, and full develop his perceptions. Such literary devices include allusion, alliteration, enjambment, and rhyme scheme.
Leda and the swan represent an underlying theme in witch the nerveless mortal versus the powerful immortal. The swan had complete control in the situation and there was nothing that Leda could do to fight him off. This poem also encompasses the deception of Zeus. The mask of a swan gives him a more appealing appearance that would be more welcomed. This allows him an...
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