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Question: What is the tone of this poem!? and how the language effect the tone!? im so confuseddd!!!!?
William Butler Yeats
"Leda and the Swan"

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast!.

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs!?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies!?

A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the 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 dropWww@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I remember this poem!

It's about the rape of Leda by Zeus in the form of a swan!. The tone of the poem is obviously erotic/sexual, and violent/dark!. The language such as "breast, caressed, loins, loosening thighs" make the tone erotic, while "dark webs, dead, brute blood", make the tone violent and dark at the same time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com