Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Leda and the Swan
- Colonilisation a cultural exchange
- "Did she put on his knowledge with his power"
- Consequences of the rape
- Burning of Troy (Helen of Troy)
- Foundation of Rome
- Spreading of Western (Greek) culture
- Modern civilisation
- Zuegma
- Suggests that one action leads to
many consequences
- Engenders
- Consequences of Colonisation
- Maud Gonne (Helen of Troy)
- Yeats enriching Irish culture
- Cultural Exchange between Ireland and England
- Ireland-Leda
- Ireland reduced to
vunerable beautiful woman
-When You are Old
- suggestion Leda was complicit in the rape
- "losening thighs"
- Zeus - England
- More powerful than Ireland
- Unity
- Yeats is Protestant
- personal culture
hybridity leads to
wanting unity- Yeats
and Postcolonialism
- Conflicted by his English background and Irish Culture
- Leda and the swan are united
- Can not tell the difference between them
- Yeats does not specify who
- Form
- Sonnet
- Ironic -a love poem about a rape
- Absence of rhyming couplet at the end
- On going consequences
- No difference
between
England and
Ireland anymore