 | Wendy Doniger - 2000 - 638 pages
...can flow both ways, as Yeats pointed out in his poem about the rape of Ledaf by Zeus: "Did she take on his knowledge with his power, before the indifferent beak could let her drop?" The Swan's penetration of Leda is a source of Leda's knowledge; women (like Delphic oracles) are possessed... | |
 | Howard B. White - 1968 - 286 pages
...creator,72 or at least Prometheus. His Prometheus is not unlike Helen in Yeats' Leda and the Swan. Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? To put on the power of the creator, one would have to diminish the power of the creator, and the creator... | |
 | Shira Wolosky Weiss - 2001 - 248 pages
...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? This is one of the great sonnets of the twentieth century. Yeats is a poet with an especially melodic... | |
 | Patsy J. Daniels - 2001 - 204 pages
...she asking for it? Did she enJoy it? But Yeats asks a much more provocative question in this poem: "Did she put on his knowledge with his power / Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?" What has lreland learned from the forced intimacy of the encounter with the colonizing power? Has lreland... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2001 - 612 pages
...roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up,0 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? On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac0 Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the... | |
 | Nina Kossman - 2001 - 316 pages
...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? Leda • Mona Van Duyn "Did she put cm his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...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? 1 Leda and the Swan: The Greek god Zeus took the form of a swan and sexually assaulted Leda. The result... | |
 | David Adams Leeming - 2002 - 196 pages
...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? WBYeats O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord most... | |
 | Key West Author's Co-op (Key West, Fla.) - 2002 - 180 pages
...him. INCIDENT ON CAROLINE Being so caught up, ROBINORLANDI 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? WB Yeats Monica tried to focus on the stars spangled against the van's windshield. The carpet under... | |
 | Rob Pope - 2002 - 448 pages
...roof and tower 10 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? Yeats (1865-1939) - at various times, Irish nationalist, founder of the Irish Academy of Letters, devotee... | |
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Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? 
