The speaker retells a story from Greek mythology when he wrote “Leda and the Swan”, about the assault of the young lady Leda by the God Zeus, who was characterized as a swan. Leda felt a sudden blow, with the immense wings of the swan as yet beating over her. Her thighs were stroked by "the dark webs," and the nape of her neck was caught in his bill; he held "her helpless breast upon his breast." How, the speaker asks, could Leda's "terrified vague fingers" push the feathered eminence of the swan from between her thighs? What's more, how would her able body help yet feel "the strange heart beating where it lies"? A shiver in the loins makes you see the dividing line being the moment of ejaculation, then "the broken wall, the burning roof and