 A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from...  War Department Education Manual - 123 psl.autoriai: United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Richard J. Finneran - 1989 - 356 psl.
...of the verb forms in achieving a timeless, emblematic tone: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed...bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. (P 214) In this quatrain describing the rape, the first four verb forms are participles, and the progression... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 psl.
...an ekphrastic poem in its own way, employing probing questions of the sort that Walter Pater might: How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered...But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? — he asks of the scene he has invoked, of the virgin being raped by the godas-swan. And thus he ends... | |
 | Edwin Webb - 1992 - 184 psl.
...of promoting awareness and generating consequent discussion: A sudden blow, the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed...thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, the strange heart beating where it lies? A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the... | |
 | Paul Kirschner, Alexander Stillmark - 1992 - 188 psl.
...strange is the poem's creative representation of sexual power: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed...breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fmgers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in thai white rush.... | |
 | Alberta Turner - 1992 - 228 psl.
...that experience. Consider the following poem: Leda and the Swan A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed...bill. He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. T: How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 1992 - 414 psl.
...contrary, it points forward, as the first stanza clearly shows: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed...bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. The mood is one of pure expectation; the stanza portends surprise and destiny. Now, this certainly... | |
 | Susan Sage Heinzelman, Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman - 1994 - 406 psl.
...increases his violence, and frames that violence as seductive: A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed...in his bill. He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.72 The vagueness of "rush" and "wheel" and the discursiveness of "the bird descends" are condensed... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - 1994 - 344 psl.
...Leda, who suffers. In Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan', however, there is a recognition of Leda's dilemma:18 How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? None the less, despite recognising Leda's plight, Yeats celebrates a male victory : Did she put on... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 psl.
...Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come. LEDA AND THE SWAN A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed...in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the buming roof and tower And Agamemnon dead, Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the... | |
 | Jon Tuttle - 1995 - 92 psl.
...which he recites dramatically and engagingly from memory.) "A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed...the strange heart ... beating ... where it lies?" (Blackout.) Scene 3 Warm lights up on Murray 's of/ice. Murray has just stood up from his desk chair.... | |
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