...drinking, Warring, whoring. What the hell? Write it down, and you'll do well." GRADUATE "ASSISTANT" "Did she put on his knowledge with his power before the indifferent beak could let her drop?" THE HANDSOME POET The handsome poet doesn't need to write poems that are poems, or even poems that...

...admit, by means of rhetorical questions: Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Graves's own treatment of the same subject, in "Leda," shows one very critical contrast with Yeats's...

...roof and tower 10 And Agamemnon2 dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? 1923 [1924*] [1928] 4. Mary and Joseph fled from Bethlehem to Egypt after the birth of Jesus, having...

...Leda and Zeus. Yeats's last stanza: Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? In such a situation, Ashrawi argued, the writer necessarily has several imperatives to respond to,...

...poetry? To "have" the poetry, do we try to "possess" the poet? As Yeats puts it in "Leda and the Swan," "Did she put on his knowledge with his power / Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?" The short answer is no; As a graduate student, living alone in my own apartment, before the threat...

...roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.— Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? It comes like a voice from nowhere, catching us too offguard. "A sudden blow: the great wings beating...

...a narrator of present events to one of past events. The poem ends with a rather profound question: Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? It is here, I believe, that the cline of (possible) speakers is at its closest yet to the essence of...

...burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? F. SCOTT FITZGERALD from E Scott Fitzgerald, All the Sad Young Men (1926) 'Absolution' is a remarkable...

...burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air. Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?10 The theme of this sonnet has its roots firmly fixed in Greek mythology. Zeus is said to have...

...in the work of Foucauk—and, indeed, in much of twentieth-century modernism (eg, Yeats's question "Did she put on his knowledge with his power / Before the indifferent beak could let IUT drop?"(—is fascinating in light of Gaukroger's argument that Descartes abandoned the exploration...