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Stanza II: Yeats' mind immediately turns to thoughts of Maud Gonne. He again uses the metaphor of Helen of Troy in describing Maud Gonne as 'Ledaean body' .

Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event. That changed some childish day to tragedy— Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent. Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell. To study reading-books and history, To cut and sew, be neat in everything. In the best modern way—the children's eyes.

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Told of a harsh reproof, or … 'dreamt' Ledaean body refers the reader not only to the myth of Leda, mother of Helen of Troy by Zeus, who possessed her in the shape of a swan, but also to Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan', a superbly realized poem whose images suggest ideas of beauty, of power, … 2012-02-08 Leda’s body “bent/ above a sinking fire” is symbolic of her diminishing youthful spirit; Leda loses the purity of her youth through one “trivial event.” Yeats knows that later in life, these children, with the same Leda-like innocence, will have to be stripped of their purity. II I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy — Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial 2009-12-01 2018-11-19 He says “I dream of a Ledaean body, bent / Above a sinking fire, a tale that she / Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event / that changed some childish day to tragedy-…” (9-12). Describing her body as bent, he combines this image with that of a dying fire, implying that she relayed this story to him in her old age. I dream of a Ledaean body, bent.

All the stretched body's laid on the white rush And feels the strange heart beating where it lies; A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let

That changed some childish day to tragedy The Ledaean body refers to the Greek myth Yeats wrote about in his poem Leda and the Swan. Leda is raped by Zeus in the form of a swan and gives birth to Helen of Troy and Castor and Pollux. As the speaker walks through the schoolroom he is thinking back to a woman he loved with a youthful passion, a certain Maud Gonne (who refused Yeats's proposal to marry). I dream of a Ledaean [2] body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy — Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s [3] parable, Into the yolk and white of … 9 I dream of a Ledaean body, bent.

I dream of a Ledaean body, bent. Above a sinking fire, a tale that she. Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event. That changed some childish day to tragedy— Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent. Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell. III

Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato's parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell. I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy-- Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato's parable, I dream of a Ledaean body, bent. Above a sinking fire, a tale that she.

That changed some childish day to tragedy – Maud Gonne, aesthetically transformed into a "Ledaean body" that inspires meditation and aspiration,5 she, woman, is no more than a prop for the male artist, 30 Mar 2020 I dream of a Ledaean body, bent. Above a sinking fire, a tale that she. Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event. That changed some childish day Stanza II: Yeats' mind immediately turns to thoughts of Maud Gonne.
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Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? 2012-02-08 · The phrase ‘Ledaean body’ refers to this woman. She was the Irish nationalist Maud Gonne who was only eighteen months younger than Yeats, and who had great physical and intellectual attraction for him; to him she was like Helen in Greek mythology who was a demi-goddess, being the daughter of Leda, a beautiful woman raped by Zeus in the form of a swan (hence the ‘Ledaean body’ above). 2015-06-09 · Notes by William Fairbairn Mythical Background behind the ‘Ledean Body’ Interested (and keen) students will, no doubt, dash off to read ‘The Iliad’ to brush up on the full background to Yeats’ superb poem. If you have less time, but a keen interest, you may also enjoy Madeline Miller’s 2012 novel The Song of Achilles… I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy— Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell.

II I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy — Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, 1999-12-01 · All the stretched body's laid on the white rush And feels the strange heart beating where it lies; A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? 2012-02-08 · The phrase ‘Ledaean body’ refers to this woman.
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Leda’s body “bent/ above a sinking fire” is symbolic of her diminishing youthful spirit; Leda loses the purity of her youth through one “trivial event.” Yeats knows that later in life, these children, with the same Leda-like innocence, will have to be stripped of their purity.

I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy— Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell. III I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy — Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell.

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All the stretched body's laid on the white rush And feels the strange heart beating where it lies; A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let

a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to 8) A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (London : Macmillan, 1984). 251. Ledaean body: Maud Gonne. Leda suggests the story I dream of a Ledaean body, bent. Above a sinking fire, a tale that she.

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