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In his poem “Leda and the Swan,” William Butler Yeats retells the classic Greek myth in which Leda, a human woman, is impregnated by the god Zeus while he is in the form of a swan.
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The poem is based on the Greek mythological story of beautiful Leda, who gave birth to Helen and Clytemnestra after she was raped by Zeus in the form of a swan. The poem details the rape of Leda with graphic imagery. At the climax of their sexual union, Yeats tersely outlines the fate of their lineage:
By William Butler Yeats. ‘Leda and the Swan’ is a standout sonnet by W.B. Yeats, featured in his 1928 collection, The Tower. The poem explores the Greek myth of Leda, seduced by Zeus as a swan, and is considered one of Yeats’ finest works. Read Poem.
11 Ιαν 2022 · Zeus, still in the guise of a swan, laid down next to Leda and proceeded to give her children. Later on in the same day as her unknowing encounter with Zeus, Leda would sleep with her husband, the king of Sparta.
Leda and the Swan, a 16th-century copy after a lost painting by Michelangelo (National Gallery, London) Roman oil lamp, 1st century AD. Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda, a Spartan queen.
“The poem begins with ‘a sudden blow’ as Zeus enters in the form of the swan with his ‘great wings beating,’ grasping ‘the staggering’ and ‘helpless’ girl as he begins to rape her.” other avenues to explore in an effort to establish his own worldview.
The octave essentially describes the god Zeus’s forced and unannounced impregnation of Leda and her ineffectual human efforts at resisting this sudden implosion in her “loosening thighs.”
