yeats and keats
Yeats’s Leda and the Swan and Hopkins’s The Windhover incorporate birds to represent superior beings. With the use of their superior powers, the birds initiate violent attacks on the weaker subjects of their domain. The falcon circles high then swiftly swoops to attack his prey while the swan, metaphorically Zeus, strikes then rapes Leda. The birds in both poems have divine characteristics; they are masters of their element and have complete control of their situation. The Windhover begins slowly with detailed description of the Kestrels flight: “High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing”. Its narrative format gives the reader a first hand account of its perfection. Its beauty and complete mastery of flight stirs the speaker’s heart that previously was in a state of “hiding”. The sight of the falcon awakens feelings the speaker never knew existed. He recognizes its precision and power yet he also identifies the potential danger of its ability. The combination of “brute beauty”, “valor”, and “pride” results in an explosion of energy or “fire that breaks from” the Kestrel. Each time it strikes it becomes stronger, wiser, and “more dangerous”. In calling, “O my chevalier!” the speaker reveals his desir
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Hopkinss Windhover, King Agamemnon, Leda Swan, Christ Lord, Trojan War, Kestrel Swan, Zeus Leda, Helen Clytemnestra, trojan war, sight falcon, rhyme scheme, ledas thighs, leda swan, breast breast,
Approximate Word count = 816
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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