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i dont read the violence in this either, i see the traditional struggle for a women to embrace her sexuality. i wish i knew more stuff, i dont know who agamennon is i want you to listen to a song i am haunted by. if you go to youtube music and put in stereo love and play original mix, i am curious to your reaction
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Wow. I mean this is what used to make this place magic. Where else in the world but here? Will posts like this ever be found on beta? Does anyone blog like this anymore? I am so glad to be here re-reading you for the first time. I imagine this post would have been too literary for most bloggers, then or now, but your response to this poem just shows how brilliant it is. And the thing is it would always be hard to discuss this properly in normal company. I don't think you can ever get away from the fact that it starts as a . But Zeus (the swan) was a God. AndsSuch ravagings (how do you spell ravagings, my spell checker doesn't like it) are more common and seemingly accepted in Greek mythology. It seems at some point Leda willingly gives herself up to it. Perhaps she was only resisting because she thought she should? She was someone else's wife (I can't remember who.) But it is easy (for us) to interpret some of the words to mean she was overwhelmed not so much by the power of Zeus in swan form, but but the lust his power brought out in her. In the state of mind you were in when you wrote this blog Jules, you must have felt an understanding for a woman who enjoyed something of the sensation of a . Not an unwanted, out and out hateful , but a desired conquering. I think that is what the poem is about, but using a Greek myth and obscure language to mask what would have been a taboo subject even then. But I think most English professors major on the idea that the poem tells us how violence leads to more violence. Didn't this act lead to the Trojan war? But I don't completely get the reference to Agamemnon. He was killed on his return from the war, either by his wife or her lover, accounts vary. Is that just more about violence coming from violence? Or is it Butler Yeats' post-Victorian high brow version of the cliched fate of teenagers who get zombied after having sex in the first ac t of a horror movie - the penalty of lust is death? No.....maybe I am heading off down a fanciful rabbit hole myself now. Whatever. I knew the poem, but I have never thought about it in that kind of detail before. Great blogging. Can we have some more of these ten years on please?
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