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 .
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