Leda

and the collective unconscious or memory, which influences him to write around different mythologies, despite being a Christian. “Spiritus Mundi” leads to two of the works that reflect his opinion regarding war and conquest. Through these two works, “Leda and the Swan” and “The Second Coming,” Yeats’ opinion of war as a cyclistic and inevitable pattern set from the beginning of time. “The Second Coming” opens in the structure of an English Sonnet, with eight lines in the first stanza. Within…

beauty can cause a tragic distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy. “Leda and the Swan” is another poem written by W.B. Yeats, it retells the fantasy from the Greek mythology of how Zeus - the most powerful god of all - raped Leda, the daughter of the king of Sparta, taking the form of a swan. “No Second Troy” might look like a sonnet, but as it is known a sonnet contains 14 lines but this poem has only 12; while “Leda and the Swan” is a Petrarchan sonnet because it has 14 lines and…

holding hands. The two brightest stars, representing the two 'heads' are named Castor and Pollux after the Greek mythological twins. The creation tale of Gemini is an interesting one. Twin brothers Castor and Pollux were brought up by their mother Leda, however they had different fathers. Castor's father was Leda's husband, The King of Sparta, but Pollux's father was the God Zeus. Because of…

Chaos Theory claims that “something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. It may take a very long time, but the connection is real”(Wolfe). In “Leda and the Swan” by William Butler Yeats, Leda is raped by the Greek God Zeus, who has transformed himself into a swan. The rape leads to the birth of four children, the two immortals, Castor and Pollux, and most importantly the two mortals, Helen and Clytemnestra, who one day have a…

Historically, erotic art has displayed many sexual scenes and provides a context for sexuality that expresses various aspects of a variety of cultures. Firmly, I believe that erotic art has a purpose beyond being just being beautiful, captivating pieces. Erotic art helps humans understand the origins of sexuality. They aid in our understanding of evolution by demonstrating that sex is a normative act through many various cultures. Also, sexual acts between animals, children and other deviating…

Aristotle and Pythagoras, and to mythological tales as the one of “Leda and the Swan”. The second attribute he has to convey…

interesting during my visit to the museum, was the painting of Leda and the Swan, because I felt that this painting reflected many of the sexuality views that we discuss in class in regards to previous civilizations. According to the description of this painting, Zeus took the form of a swan to seduce Leda on the same night that she had slept with her husband, King Tyndareus of Sparta, and as a result of these two encounters, Leda ended up giving birth to two sets of twins. Based on this…

In spite of being one of the incidental causes of the Trojan War, Helen of Troy was the most alluring female in all of Greece. Zeus is the father of Helen, and her mother thought to be either Nemesis or Leda since there are many different versions of the story. In addition, Helen might be the sister of the Dioscuri (the mortals Polydeuces and Castor) because they share the same father, but it is unexplained if they share the same mother. However, the Dioscuri seems to possibly have a different…

stories of a young women but the stories are in the voice of a man. For instance, "Leda and the Swan" and "Main Street" there are clearly idealistic views for both of these women. I think another point I would like to mention is that both of these women endured their own struggles one way or another. Both of these writers were witnessing these issues amongst their society. I would like to first discuss William Yeats "Leda and the Swan"…

The poem tells the story of the rape of Leda by the god Zeus in the form of a swan. The poem is a broken sonnet, it is a very distabilising form as itself but also for the reader, it is quite unusual. Nevertheless, the first two stanzas have a regular rhyme pattern with alternate rhymes (still / caressed / bill / breast). The poem is about one particular event (Leda's rape) which will change the course of History. Indeed, Leda will give birth to several children including Helen, one…