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Leda and the Swan
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(English) Mind Map on Leda and the Swan, created by bkayc42 on 13/11/2013.
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Leda and the Swan
Colonilisation a cultural exchange
"Did she put on his knowledge with his power"
Consequences of the rape
Burning of Troy (Helen of Troy)
Foundation of Rome
Spreading of Western (Greek) culture
Modern civilisation
Zuegma
Suggests that one action leads to many consequences
Engenders
Consequences of Colonisation
Maud Gonne (Helen of Troy)
Yeats enriching Irish culture
Cultural Exchange between Ireland and England
Ireland-Leda
Ireland reduced to vunerable beautiful woman -When You are Old
suggestion Leda was complicit in the rape
"losening thighs"
Zeus - England
More powerful than Ireland
Unity
Yeats is Protestant
personal culture hybridity leads to wanting unity- Yeats and Postcolonialism
Conflicted by his English background and Irish Culture
Leda and the swan are united
Can not tell the difference between them
Yeats does not specify who
Form
Sonnet
Ironic -a love poem about a rape
Absence of rhyming couplet at the end
On going consequences
No difference between England and Ireland anymore
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