Leda and the Swan
What is the author's tone in Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats?

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The tone is very sexual and violent. Yeats uses forceful words that represent a violation and discard of the girl. Some say there is a romanticism about the poem with suggests that Leda was not raped but I think the details of a forced sexual encounter and later discard of the girl pretty much sets the tone of the poem.