Leda and the Swan notes Origins Leda and the Swan was a Greek myth in which the God Zeus transformed into a swan and raped the girl Leda. Different versions of the myth disagree on whether Leda was actually raped or seduced by Zeus. In the myth‚ Leda gave birth to four children‚ who hatched from eggs. One of the children was Helen of Troy‚ the woman the Trojan War was fought over. Analysis on form The poem is a sonnet-it has 14 lines. Each of the lines has 10 beats to it. Yeats plays with
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In William Butler Yeats poem "Leda and the Swan"‚ he uses the fourteen lines of the traditional sonnet form in a radical‚ modernist style. He calls up a series of unforgettable‚ bizarre images of an immediate physical event using abstract descriptions in brief language. Through structure and language Yeats is able to paint a powerful sexual image to his readers without directly giving the meaning of the poem. "Leda and the Swan" is a violent‚ sexually explicit poem with its plain diction‚ rhythmic
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of Leda by Zeus in animal form. Simple word choice completely inverts the commonly held notion of man’s superiority over animals. The swan’s actions are portrayed with active verbs like “engenders” and “holds‚” while Leda is “caressed‚” “caught‚” and “mastered.” She is “helpless” and “terrified‚” while the swan is “great” and “indifferent.” Additionally‚ the words “staggering‚” “shuddering‚” and “loosening” shows ambiguity in Leda’s consent and ultimately portray either the power of the swan or the
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transformation. Similarly in “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ Yeats paints a melancholic landscape of unchanging beauty. The personal context of the poetry‚ converse to “Easter 1916”‚ aids in emphasising Yeats’ consciousness of the ideas of impermanence and timelessness. Yeats starkly contrasts his own “heart which is sore” swan’s hearts which “have not grown old”‚ stressing a tension between youth and age. Yeats portrays his own transient mortality in relation to his age‚ juxtaposed to the swans’ youth‚ a symbol of
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Poetry Commentary: The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats is‚ as the title suggests‚ a poem about a flock of Swans inhabiting the lake at Augusta Gregory ’s Coole Park residence. However‚ the theme of the poem is change and unrequited love‚ presumably inspired by the transformation Europe‚ and Yeats himself‚ underwent in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The poem is written in a consistently contemplative and plaintive tone‚ and it seems the poet is experiencing
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Wild Swans by Alice Munro In the story “Wild Swans‚” Rose is learning about the destructive potential of relationships at home. The story mainly takes place on a train journey. Rose is traveling to Toronto by herself with ten dollars ¨in a little cloth bag which she sewed to the strap of Rose´s slip´. Before she leaves‚ Flo‚ Roseś step-mom‚ tells Rose to be careful‚ everyone wants to hurt you. Rose does not believe anything Flo warns her about in the community of Toronto. The reason she is going
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Wild swans Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is a memoir of three generations of Chinese women from Imperial China through and beyond the Cultural Revolution. Chang’s grandmother was a warlord’s concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao’s revolution and rose‚ like her husband‚ to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched‚ worked‚ and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in
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Leda and the swan word choice Word choice of course always has to do with what you want to say and how you want to say this. For example the last words of the first two paragraphs follow the abab rhyme scheme so they are kind of set already. Words are also very particularly chosen to create a certain mood. In the first sentence the mood of the poem is already very clear‚ a dark‚ mystified‚ mood and to do this it uses the word sudden. This tells the reader that an unexpected thing is happening
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Easter 1916‚ Wild Swans at Coole and Second Coming The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry‚ influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns. “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” encapsulate the romanticism in his early poetry
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Year 11 Short Story Unit Writing Task How does “Wild Swans” explore the central character’s experience of adolescence? In Alice Munro’s short narrative Wild Swans‚ the female adolescent narrator‚ Rose‚ travels alone on a train ride to Toronto. On the train she is sexually harassed by a minister and through Rose’s reactions to the harassment‚ readers are given a vivid image of how Rose experiences adolescence. Throughout the story‚ Rose experiences fear and confusion about growing up‚ prompting herx
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