The "Ledaean body" is a reference to the beauty of Leda and also to the beauty of Helen, who was born of Leda. This classical allusion poses complicated ideas about beauty. Indeed, the Ledaean

I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire. a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy – Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell. III

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'dreamt' Ledaean body refers the reader not only to the myth of Leda, mother of Helen of Troy by Zeus, who possessed her in the shape of a swan, but also to Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan', a superbly realized poem whose images suggest ideas of beauty, of power, of the inter-mingling of human and divine, of fate and of Adjective. Ledaean ( comparative more Ledaean, superlative most Ledaean) Of or relating to the mythological Leda.

I dream of a Ledaean body, bent. Above a sinking fire, a tale that she. Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event. That changed some childish day to tragedy—.

Above a sinking fire, a tale that she. Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event.

I dream of a Ledaean [2] body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy — Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s [3] parable, Into the yolk and white of …

I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy — Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent 2013-02-20 · I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire. a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy – Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy, Or else, to alter Plato’s parable, Into the yolk and white of the one shell.

Above a sinking fire, a tale that she. Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event. I dream of a Ledaean body, bent.
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25 Dec 2015 the same search for what he calls “the dream”, and the next stanza opens in a completely different register: “I dream of a Ledaean body, bent/ 20 Dec 2015 I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire. a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to 8) A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (London : Macmillan, 1984). 251.
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Such surreptitious assimilation of the 'Ledaean body' is further enhanced through Michelangelo's emphasis on those wriggling fingers and those remarkably

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