William BUtler Yeats critique on Lead and the Swan

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…the attitude of her attacker, a reader can only wonder if Leda had acquired the indifference of Zeus, would the result have been so fatal? Though one can only speculate, perhaps if Leda had been as apathetic as Zeus, their daughter Helen, on whose account the Trojan war was fought, may have prevented the war rather than provoked it. On the other hand, Helen may have not even been the fruit of such a union.