Did she know she was having sex with a god? She didn't have too long to think about it, because as soon as the swan had gotten what he wanted, he let her fall to the ground as if he couldn't care less. The speaker wonders if Leda acquired any of Zeus's knowledge as the swan overpowered her. In Ancient Greek mythology – and in Yeats's poem – Leda's rape is taken as an indirect a cause of war. Leda and the Swan is a violent, sexually explicit poem that has all of the lyricism and. She will give birth to Helen of Troy, the woman over whom the Trojan War will be fought. William Butler Yeatss daring sonnet describing the details of a story from Greek mythologythe rape of Leda by the god Zeus in the form of a swanwas written at the height of the poets career, the same year he received the Nobel Prize for literature.
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs And how can body. He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. The swan completes the act, and Leda becomes pregnant. By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill. The fast-moving bird on top of her looks like a blur of white feathers, and she can feel his heart beating. The bird opens the girl's thighs, and her hands are too frightened and confused to resist. She can't escape as the swan presses down with his chest on her own. He caresses her thighs with his webbed feat and holds the back of her neck in his bill. The swan beats its wings ferociously as it lands on top of her. A big white bird clocks a young girl and knocks her off balance.
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