When analyzing the theme of"Leda and the Swan"written by William Butler Yeats, some scholar has concluded that the poem expresses Yeats's sexual desire for Maud Gonne and it is a work filled with an imag...When analyzing the theme of"Leda and the Swan"written by William Butler Yeats, some scholar has concluded that the poem expresses Yeats's sexual desire for Maud Gonne and it is a work filled with an imagination of his rape of her. However, this argument can be proved to be false from five respects:the different periods of Yeats's Poems;Yeats's life experience;the form of the poem;the tone of the poem;and its historical situation and Yeats's attitude toward the situation. Hence a poem should be inter-preted by returning to the text and should not be over-interpreted without taking into account its situation and related factors .展开更多
文摘When analyzing the theme of"Leda and the Swan"written by William Butler Yeats, some scholar has concluded that the poem expresses Yeats's sexual desire for Maud Gonne and it is a work filled with an imagination of his rape of her. However, this argument can be proved to be false from five respects:the different periods of Yeats's Poems;Yeats's life experience;the form of the poem;the tone of the poem;and its historical situation and Yeats's attitude toward the situation. Hence a poem should be inter-preted by returning to the text and should not be over-interpreted without taking into account its situation and related factors .
