OED: As a response to W.B. Yeats’s Leda and the Swan, Carl Phillips’s Leda, After the Swan offers a reflection on the events of Yeats’s poem from Leda’s point of view, defying reader expectations by casting her experience in a positive light. In achieving this goal, it is necessary that Leda’s account take on a tone of serenity and avoid the language of fear and violence so prevalent in Leda and the Swan. For this purpose, the word “grace” used in the second line of the poem is essential.
Comparison: John Keats’s When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be and Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus each deal with the subject of death, specifically the way in which one’s attitude toward death affects the quality of one’s life. The speakers in each poem hold opposing views on death, Keats’s narrator paralyzed by a dread of death and Plath’s spurred on by an attraction to it.
Metrical Analysis: Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress is fundamentally a poem about time. In each of the three stanzas of the poem, the narrator expresses a different conception of the effect of time on his relationship with his mistress.
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