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	Leda and the Swan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leda and the Swan: copy after a lost original by Michelangelo, one of the iconic images of 16th century Mannerism
		The motif of Leda and the Swan from Greek mythology, in which the Greek god Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan, was rarely seen in Gothic art, but resurfaced as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in Italian painting and sculpture of the 16th Century.
		Leda and the Swan furnished a common motif for the rapidly unfolding visual arts into the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leda_and_the_Swan (319 words)

	Leonardo DaVinci
		Leonardo's head and coiffure study for Leda and the Swan is signed; it should be noted that this is not his signature, having been added at a later date by one of the owners.
		In the final painting Leda was in the second of the two poses and seeming to recoil from the swan, while at the same time showing a shy attraction towards it.
		Leda's head was modestly lowered giving a virginal look, in contrast her figure was opulent, a mature body with a young head on her shoulders.
	www.lairweb.org.nz /leonardo/leda.html (288 words)

	WowEssays.com - Leda And The Swan
		Leda and the Swan is a sonnet, one of the most precise forms of literature known.
		Leda is the staggering girl and the poem refers to Her thighs, her nape, her helpless breast, and her loosening thighs.
		Leda and the Swan was Yeats's only realistic alternative to the conflict in his life, and as a form of self therapy, it remains a nearly perfect work of art.
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	Leda and the Swan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The most familiar examples are the copies of (Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)) Leonardo da Vinci's lost painting, with the two sets of infant twins; (Italian painter noted for his use of chiaroscuro and perspective (1494-1534)) Correggio's elaborate composition of c.
		Leda and the Swan furnished a common motif for the visual arts into the 19th century.
		"Leda And The Swan" is a poem by (Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)) William Butler Yeats first published in 1924.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leda_and_the_swan.htm (302 words)

	FYS 100- LEO!!!
		We also have a description of Leda and the Swan at Fontainebleau (where it is believed by many to have hung) by Cassiano del Pozzo in 1625 which says, “A standing figure of Leda…and two eggs from whose broken shells come forth four babies…” (Eissler 137).
		Leda is obviously nude, which in itself can make a painting erotic, but what makes it more erotic is the fact that it is Leonardo’s only painting of a fully-nude woman that is not an anatomical study.
		Her head is turned away from the swan as if she is not interested, but you get the feeling that she is ambivalent about the situation.
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	Free Essays on Leda And The Swan
		Much along the same lines is Yeats’ "Leda and the Swan." Using the binary oppositions of the beauty and viciousness of Zeus as a swan and the helplessness and eventual strength of Leda, Yeats reveals that even the mightiest entities may suffer the consequences of their misuse of power.
		The swan, though glorious in its physical characteristics, is a savage and inconsiderate male beast that selfishly rapes an innocent girl.
		Leda is of the utmost innocence, and by not escaping her attacker she creates a major turning point in Greek Mythology.
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	Encyclopedia: Leda and the Swan
		Leda and the Swan, 1530, copy after a lost original by Michelangelo The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
		In Greek mythology, Leda was a Spartan queen, wife of Tyndareus and mother of the double sets of mixed twins, Castor and Polydeuces and Clytemnestra and Helen, as well as Phoebe and Philonoe.
		Mannerism is the usual English term for an approach to all the arts, particularly painting but not exclusive to it, a reaction to the High Renaissance, emerging after the Sack of Rome in 1527 shook Renaissance confidence, humanism and rationality to their foundations, and even Religion had split apart.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leda-and-the-Swan (940 words)

	Yeats''Leda and the swan': an image's coming of age
		And even when the webs on Leda’s thighs may also appear on the relief, marble has no colour, and it is precisely the resonance of that colour fl that is more than echoed in that splendid ’her thighs caressed by the dark webs’.
		Before being the metamorphosis of Mary and her dove, Leda (da Vinci’s ‘figura serpentina’) and the swan (‘the brute blood of the air’) are the metamorphosis of Eve and the serpent (‘the cold blood of the waters’).
		The feathered swan in the skies as the counterpart of the slimy snake in the waters.
	d-sites.net /english/yeats.htm (6376 words)

	Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan': Psycho-Sexual Therapy in Action
		Critical methodologies attempt to address these issues and more in their treatments of "Leda and the Swan." However, to understand fully the poem and its implications, a formal close reading of th e text must be combined with supplementary biographical information to inform a final psychoanalytic reading of the poem.
		Leda is "the staggering girl" and the poem refers to "Her thighs," "her nape," "her helpless breast," and "her loosening thighs." The swan is never actually called Zeus or even the Swan (in fact, Agamemnon is the only name mentioned in the body of the poem).
		Yeats, W.B. "Leda and the Swan." The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~erdemoz/Write/leda.html (2814 words)

	Leda and the Swan Essays - Binary Oppositions in Leda and the Swan
		Leda and the Swan Essays - Binary Oppositions in Leda and the Swan
		Yeats' "Leda and the Swan" uses the binary oppositions of the beauty and viciousness of Zeus as a swan and the helplessness and eventual strength of Leda, Yeats reveals that even the mightiest entities may suffer the consequences of their misuse of power.
		In "Leda and the Swan," the beauty of the swan is contrasted with the physical attributes of a swan who acts out his male animalistic power over his female prey, demonstrating the raw male and female relationships in nature.
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	WetCanvas! - Archive - Leda and the Swan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As the myth developed, Leda was seduced by Zeus, who disguised himself as a swan and lay with her (in the biblical sense).
		Leda is one of the small moons, about the size of a small city, and is just 16 km (10 miles) wide.
		Leda and the Swan is a tone poem based on the well known Greek myth.
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	IOnOne art \| Stefan Beyst \| Yeats' Leda and the swan: an image's coming of age \| Michelangelo's Leda
		And the complicity of the half-sleeping Leda is further emphasized by the wriggling of her fingers, betraying a nearly concealed enjoyment.
		The red draperies whereon Leda is spread are the nearly concealed representation of a vagina (see also the print of Bos).
		Although da Vinci’s swan takes the shape of a full-fledged human body, Leda only has to disappointedly turn away from a void, while at the same time the swan’s greedy beak is deliberately out at her lips.
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	Mythography \| The Greek Heroine Leda in Myth and Art
		Leda was the mother to many noble children, including the famous beauty Helen, the heroine Clytemnestra, and the twins Castor and Polydeuces (the pair, incidentally, were also known as the Dioscuri).
		According to myth, Leda was approached by the god Zeus while he was masquerading as a swan.
		Here is another poetic plot twist - the legend is that Helen was born from an egg because her father Zeus appeared as a swan when he impregnated Leda (it should be mentioned that some versions of the tale instead claim that it was the goddess Nemesis who laid the egg from which Helen hatched).
	www.loggia.com /myth/leda.html (454 words)

	Leda Swan Essays - Yeats’ Leda and the Swan and Van Duyn's Leda
		Leda Swan Essays - Yeats’ Leda and the Swan and Van Duyn's Leda
		Yeats’ Leda and the Swan and Van Duyn's Leda
		Both William Butler Yeats and Mona Van Duyn base their poems "Leda and the Swan" and "Leda," respectively, on this story of a "mystic marriage." Yeats' focus on the sexual act itself, along with his allusions to Leda's progeny, manifest a grave and terrifying tone.
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	[minstrels] Leda and the Swan -- William Butler Yeats
		[Historical note] The swan is an incarnation of Zeus; the offspring of his union with Leda were the twins Castor and Pollux, and the beautiful Helen of Troy.
		In 'Leda and the Swan', the issue that causes heartburn in many modern critics is not the fact that the theme is a rape, but that Yeats seems to 1.
		On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Abraham Thomas wrote: > 'Leda and the Swan' > [Historical note] > The swan is an incarnation of Zeus; the offspring of his union with Leda > were the twins Castor and Pollux, and the beautiful Helen of Troy.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/451.html (1619 words)

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		Leda was a daughter of the king of Aetolia.
		From that union, it is said that Leda laid two eggs from which emerged two pairs of children: Helen and Castor, and Pollux and Clytemnestra.
		Leda and the Swan by Karl WESCHKE (1986)
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	Leda and the Swan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The story of Leda and the swan was extremely popular in both renaissance and baroque art, but Boucher has presented the subject with unerring pictoral instinct, obviously less concerned with sticking to the original story.
		Nowhere in the various accounts of Jupiter's seduction of Leda, wife of King Tydnareus of Sparta by the god taking the form of a swan, is there mention of a second female as beautiful as Leda herself.
		Indeed the swan is depicted in a way which seems deliberately calculated to contradict the phallic symbolism of its outstreteched neck.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/anc_bou_leda.html (284 words)

	Leda and the Swan Summary & Essays - William Butler Yeats
		William Butler Yeats’s daring sonnet describing the details of a story from Greek mythology—the rape of Leda by the god Zeus in the form of a swan—was written at the height of the poet’s career, the same year he received the Nobel Prize for literature.
		“Leda and the Swan” is a violent, sexually explicit poem that has all of the lyricism and complexity of Yeats’s later work, with its plain diction, rhythmic vigor, and allusions to mystical ideas about the universe, the relationship of human and divine, and the cycles of history.
		Yeats himself considered the poem one of his major accomplishments, and in addition to praising its economy of language and skillful use of rhythm, critics have seen it as a fine example of how ideas that were central to the poet’s life found expression in his poetry.
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	SparkNotes: Yeats's Poetry: "Leda and the Swan"
		"Leda and the Swan" is a sonnet, a traditional fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
		The structure of this sonnet is Petrarchan with a clear separation between the first eight lines (the "octave") and the final six (the "sestet"), the dividing line being the moment of ejaculation--the "shudder in the loins." The rhyme scheme of the sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFGEFG.
		Also like "The Second Coming," "Leda and the Swan" is valuable more for its powerful and evocative language--which manages to imagine vividly such a bizarre phenomenon as a girl's rape by a massive swan--than for its place in Yeats's occult history of the world.
	www.sparknotes.com /poetry/yeats/section7.rhtml (467 words)

	Leda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		LEDA, in Greek mythology, daughter of Thestius, king of Actolia, and Eurythemis (her parentage is variously given).
		The LEDA spacecraft during the terminal phase of its descent to the lunar surface.
		Helen of Troy was conceived in the rape of Leda.
	supersearching.com /k/leda.html (833 words)

	Rhetorical Figures in Yeat's Leda and the Swan
		"Leda and the Swan," a sonnet by William Butler Yeats, describes a rape.
		In the second sestet Yeats uses anacoenosis, asking the opinion of one's readers; furthermore, because "Leda and the Swan" considers a definite question tied to place and time, the poem is a hypothesis.
		In "Leda and the Swan," the figures contribute to the poet's purpose.
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	Leda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Leda is famous for her children, Castor, Polydeuces, Helen and Clytemnestra.
		In the pictures, Leda appears to be satisfied from her love, and she seems to be an erotic inspiration of artists, since as we can see in most of the pictures, she is indeed presented very erotic.
		We see now Leda to be totally left to the swan's love, her face showing the satisfaction of love.
	www.ecsel.psu.edu /~rreynold/Leda.htm (291 words)

	Leda and the Swan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The whiteness of the swan with silky wings stands in contrast with the golden skin of a beautiful, young Leda, her long, blonde hair adorned with tiny flowers.
		Lladró found inspiration in the legend of the Queen of Sparta and Zeus transformed into a swan to create the latest Limited Edition sculpture reserved exclusively for members of Lladró Privilege.
		Leda's soft hands gently embrace the swan's neck, and graze its barely opened wings.
	www.lladro.com /en/40__privilege/40__pcreations/leda_presenta.asp (161 words)

	Leda and the Swan (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Enamored of the beautiful Leda, the god Jupiter seduced her in the form of a swan.
		In this bronze version of the mythological scene, Leda and the swan are suggestively posed: the arc of the lovers' embracing arms and wings and the curvature of their bodies, poised before union, increases the erotic suspense.
		The swath of drapery trapped between Leda's thighs, as well as her movement drawing the swan down towards her, hint at the inevitable moment of union.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/objects/o113647.html (190 words)

	Leda And The Swan Example Essays.com - Over 101,000 essays, term papers and book reports!
		William Butler Yeats’ poem “Leda and the Swan” is an awkward recreation of the Greek myth in which Zeus takes the form of a swan in order to seduce Leda.
		Leda and the Swan states two main charaters and doesn’t refer to the main event whatsoever.
		Leda and the swan refer to two characters and leaves the reader wondering what was the relationship that emerged and took place.
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	LEDA AND THE SWAN
		Leda was also known as Nemesis, whose animal other was a swan.
		According to another myth, Leda produced another egg which contained Clytæmnestra, who became the wife of Agamemnon, victor of the Trojan War, sacrificer of his daughter Iphigeneia to Artemis in return for a fair wind to Troy, for which act Clytæmnestra murdered him in his bath.
		'Leda and the Swan' by Cesare da Sesto
	www.beyond-the-pale.co.uk /leda.htm (310 words)

	Leda and the Swan - Birding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Enraptured with Leda's beauty, he seduced her and, still in his swan form, made love to her.
		The story inspired the famous poet WB Yeats to write a poem aptly titled Leda and the Swan, where he focusses on that powerful image.
		Leda and the Swan - WB Yeats Poem
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	Correggio - Leda And The Swan
		The Leda is somewhat less characteristic than his Danae in the Borghese at Rome, since it makes less extreme use of chiaroscuro.
		It is formed by the long, slender shapes of girls, cupids and swans, trunks and branches of trees, which converge and circle toward the face of Leda, bending and waving in a gentle, floating rhythm.
		His light pinks and blues are here, in the two figures to the right of Leda, but they are better merged than usual in a thin, delicate version of Venetian atmosphere.
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