Leda and the Swan "seems to say a knowledge of the body, of the necessity of embodiment." In the late Yeats, in the poems that I'll be discussing today, there's no knowledge apart from the body.

这诗里似乎说的是身体的知识，表现的必要性，我们要谈论的，叶芝的晚期诗讲的就是身体。

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W. B. Yeats' poem Leda and the Swan is a true reflection of the poet's life.

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝的《丽达与天鹅》是诗人现实生活的真实写照。

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Leda feels the beating of the swan's heart, and that heart is "strange" to her, that simple, powerful word.

丽达感受到天鹅的心跳，而那心跳对她来说很陌生，陌生，是个简单给力的词。

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Remember how Yeats represents history as rape in "Leda and the Swan."

记住叶芝在丽达与天鹅里,把历史表述成强奸“

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I think of it as a kind of reply to that famous question in "Leda and the Swan"; that is, "did she put on his knowledge with his power before the indifferent beak could let her drop?"

这是对丽达和天鹅中那个,著名问题的回答，在那冷漠的嘴把她放下之前,她是否用她的力量获取了他的知识？

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