Power and Sexuality in Leda and the Swan and Goblin Market
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The animals: The swan and the goblins
- The animals: Separate from the value system
- Looking at one of the binary figures in each poem
- The fruit of 'Goblin Market'
- The ending of each poem and the question posed
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
Duality and opposition are forces that play beneath the surface of both William Butler Yeats' "leda and the swan" and Christina Rossetti's "goblin market", two poems that focus on sexuality while incorporating animal figures as holders of power, both sexual and otherwise. "leda and the swan" is Yeats' retelling of a well-known Greek myth, in which Zeus takes the form of a swan and rapes a mortal woman, leda. Yeats takes a close-up, severely focused view of the rape itself, using dramatic imagery to convey the intensity of the moment. He pulls back at the poem's end to look at the event through the lens of history set in motion by this action. The poem is very visual. It sketches for the reader the image of a swan and a maiden together, and the image is a striking one. But ultimately the poem is about rape, and Yeats denies the reader none of the violence of this action. The image, in its visual aesthetic, becomes something rather grotesque. The two sides of Yeats' poem, that of the beautiful and that of the disgusting, also occur in Rossetti's "goblin market".
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