William Butler Yeats" "Leda and the Swan" is a sonnet, based on the Shakespearian rhyming scheme - iambic pentameter. ... Yeats" also draws on of images to allude upon the Trojan War. ... Yeats uses allusion in several cases. ... William Butler Yeats sonnet is filled with many descriptive words, which clearly show the difference between Gods and Humans, besides their setting up the tone for the play. ... Yeats uses physical imagery to describe the weakness of Leda. ...

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Frank O"Connor, the author of "My Oedipus Complex", was a member of the Irish Renaissance. The Irish Renaissance was a movement of Irish nationalist artists that included William Butler Yeats and Sean O"Casey (McMahan, Day, Funk 1152). O"Connor wrote plays, novels, autobiographies and 150 short s...

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