| Joseph Adams - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 132 pages
...potentially defining modifier occurring with anaphoric identification.4 Consider the following: (3 1 ) the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs The word 'staggering' is not needed as identification but nevertheless tries to exercise its own defining... | |
| Richard J. Finneran - 1989 - 356 pages
...and the Swan" to demonstrate the effect of the verb forms in achieving a timeless, emblematic tone: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above...bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. (P 214) In this quatrain describing the rape, the first four verb forms are participles, and the progression... | |
| Brian Arkins - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 280 pages
...first quarter of the fifth century BC, known as 'the Critian Boy', photo courtesy of Hirmer Fotoarchiv. Leda and the Swan. 'A sudden blow: the great wings beating still / Above the staggering girl. . .' Gandhara statue of the standing Buddha. Marble statues from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, British... | |
| Paul Kirschner, Alexander Stillmark - 1992 - 188 pages
...else's. (IY, x) What is impressive and strange is the poem's creative representation of sexual power: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above...breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fmgers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in thai white rush.... | |
| Alberta Turner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 228 pages
...to use the abstract words that are the equivalent of that experience. Consider the following poem: Leda and the Swan A sudden blow: the great wings beating...bill. He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. T: How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how... | |
| Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 1992 - 414 pages
...scope and sense of the poem. On the contrary, it points forward, as the first stanza clearly shows: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above...bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. The mood is one of pure expectation; the stanza portends surprise and destiny. Now, this certainly... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...breast to think Beast gave beast as much. (1. 9—12) 523 POETRY QUOTATIONS 524 Leda and the Swan 84 t hear it? — No; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the sto (1. 1—2) 85 A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower (1.... | |
| John Gross - Literary Collections - 1992 - 340 pages
...in sands of the desert" for "A waste of desert sand," and "Reel shadows" for "wind shadows," and in "Leda and the Swan," "A sudden blow; the great wings beating still" for "A rush, a sudden wheel, and hovering still." In "The Spur" in Last Poems (193,6-51)) "dance attendance... | |
| Susan Sage Heinzelman, Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman - Law - 1994 - 406 pages
...decreases the clumsiness of the God, increases his violence, and frames that violence as seductive: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above...in his bill. He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.72 The vagueness of "rush" and "wheel" and the discursiveness of "the bird descends" are condensed... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...form on edge through sheer dramatic power of content, beginning with its syntax-violating opening: "A sudden blow: the great wings beating still / above the staggering girl. . . ." No, the community for which Yeats is nostalgic here is precisely the sublime union he imagines... | |
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