{"id":343,"date":"2014-06-19T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=343"},"modified":"2014-10-17T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:57:42","slug":"leda-and-the-swan","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/chapter\/leda-and-the-swan\/","title":{"raw":"Leda and the Swan","rendered":"Leda and the Swan"},"content":{"raw":"[footnote]Leda was the queen of the Greek city state, Sparta; the Swan was Zeus, supreme god of Greek mythology.\u00a0According to the myth that inspired this sonnet, Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan and raped her.\u00a0Nine months later, Leda gave birth to two girls.\u00a0Helen would precipitate the Trojan War when she ran off with the Trojan prince, Paris, escaping from her Greek husband Menelaus.\u00a0Clytemnestra would marry and murder Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army and the brother of Menelaus.\u00a0Leda also gave birth to two boys: Castor and Pollux.[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nA sudden blow:\u00a0 the great wings beating still\r\nAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressed\r\nBy the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,\r\nHe holds her helpless breast upon his breast.\r\n\r\nHow can those terrified vague fingers push\r\nThe feathered glory from her loosening thighs?\r\nAnd how can body, laid in that white rush,\r\nBut feel the strange heart beating where it lies?\r\n\r\nA shudder in the loins engenders there\r\nThe broken wall, the burning roof and tower[footnote]References events of the Trojan War.[\/footnote]\r\n<\/a>And Agamemnon dead.\r\n\r\nBeing so caught up,\r\nSo mastered by the brute blood of the air,\r\nDid she put on his knowledge with his power\r\nBefore the indifferent beak could let her drop?\r\n\r\n<b>\u2014<\/b>\u00a01928","rendered":"<p><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Leda was the queen of the Greek city state, Sparta; the Swan was Zeus, supreme god of Greek mythology.\u00a0According to the myth that inspired this sonnet, Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan and raped her.\u00a0Nine months later, Leda gave birth to two girls.\u00a0Helen would precipitate the Trojan War when she ran off with the Trojan prince, Paris, escaping from her Greek husband Menelaus.\u00a0Clytemnestra would marry and murder Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army and the brother of Menelaus.\u00a0Leda also gave birth to two boys: Castor and Pollux.\" id=\"return-footnote-343-1\" href=\"#footnote-343-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sudden blow:\u00a0 the great wings beating still<br \/>\nAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressed<br \/>\nBy the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,<br \/>\nHe holds her helpless breast upon his breast.<\/p>\n<p>How can those terrified vague fingers push<br \/>\nThe feathered glory from her loosening thighs?<br \/>\nAnd how can body, laid in that white rush,<br \/>\nBut feel the strange heart beating where it lies?<\/p>\n<p>A shudder in the loins engenders there<br \/>\nThe broken wall, the burning roof and tower<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"References events of the Trojan War.\" id=\"return-footnote-343-2\" href=\"#footnote-343-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nAnd Agamemnon dead.<\/p>\n<p>Being so caught up,<br \/>\nSo mastered by the brute blood of the air,<br \/>\nDid she put on his knowledge with his power<br \/>\nBefore the indifferent beak could let her drop?<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2014<\/b>\u00a01928<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-343-1\">Leda was the queen of the Greek city state, Sparta; the Swan was Zeus, supreme god of Greek mythology.\u00a0According to the myth that inspired this sonnet, Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan and raped her.\u00a0Nine months later, Leda gave birth to two girls.\u00a0Helen would precipitate the Trojan War when she ran off with the Trojan prince, Paris, escaping from her Greek husband Menelaus.\u00a0Clytemnestra would marry and murder Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army and the brother of Menelaus.\u00a0Leda also gave birth to two boys: Castor and Pollux. <a href=\"#return-footnote-343-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-343-2\">References events of the Trojan War. <a href=\"#return-footnote-343-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["william-butler-yeats"],"pb_section_license":"public-domain"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[54],"license":[78],"class_list":["post-343","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-william-butler-yeats","license-public-domain"],"part":324,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/343\/revisions\/2410"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/324"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/343\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}