Among school children

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Daniel M

 

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August 16, 2015

 

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They learn "to cipher and to sing, to study reading-books and history," but Yeats realizes that life's true lessons do not come from the classroom. Envisioning what these innocent children will someday have to realize, Yeats imagines the rape of Leda by Zeus, turning a "childish day to tragedy." Leda's body "bent/ Above a sinking fire" is symbolic of her diminishing youthful spirit; Leda loses the gayness and purity of her youth through one "trivial event...
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This six feet line deviates from the typical five feet of each preceding line. This change parallels Leda's, and the children's, transition from innocence to knowledge. Although an extreme example, Yeats knows that later in life, these children, with the same Leda-like innocence, will have to be stripped of their purity...
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