There is a blow of some kind, and the sound of large wings beating in the air. There is only the loud and violent action opening the sonnet: “A sudden blow: the great wings beating still”, which brings the reader dramatically into the conflict. There is no set up for the story that follows. The first line immediately grabs the reader's attention. Yeats created a sonnet that is both violent with a structure that conveys feelings of safety and beauty. This again is another oppositional element. The rhyme scheme is traditional (ABAB CDCD EFG EFG) but four of the rhymes are not perfect: “push” and “rush”, “up” and “drop”. This paradox is representative of the many oppositional elements in the text. After the first reading, a paradox emerges: the poem is written in a traditional form, using a traditional rhyme scheme, yet the subject matter is non-traditional: a violent rape. So Agamemnon and his troupes besieged and destroyed Troy, but when he came back home, Agamemnon was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra. This kidnapping led to the Trojan war, indeed Menelaus asked his brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae to help him take his wife back. Helen, who became the breathtakingly beautiful wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, was abducted by Paris, a Trojan prince. Greek gods assuming the form of a swan, and from that union she bore two eggs from which hatched, Castor and Pollux, from one egg, and Helen and Clytemnestra from the second.
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