6/24/2023 0 Comments Leda and the swan by wb yeats![]() ![]() In Sword’s manuscript Leda and the Modernists, she summarizes the conflict between male and female interpretations with one sentence, particularly through a Modernist lens: “…the Leda myth offers a model of poetic creativity that is, particularly for male writers, as problematic as it is compelling” (305). Helen Sword directly confronts the different interpretations of sex in Yeats’s work, focusing on the contradictions between the male and female perspective of the audience. While Zeus’s character is vital to the story Yeats desires to tell, Leda is the main focus of this exhibit as the poem relies on the audience to determine her agency: “And how can body, laid in that white rush, but feel the strange heart beating where it lies?” This exhibit will focus on artistic interpretations of the Greek myth and how it relates to or rejects Yeats’s depictions of sexual oppression and violence this gallery will also connect to the morally gray area that Yeats creates with his poem. WB Yeats’s Leda and the Swan (1924) serves as an interpretation of the ancient Greek myth in which Zeus transforms into a swan for the purpose of assaulting or seducing Leda. ![]()
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