The speaker says it is “useless to think you’ll park and capture” the sight of these animals, because you are “a hurry through which known and strange things pass” in the poem “Postscript.” A poem titled for one of these animals wonders if a woman felt “the strange heart beating where it lies.” In another poem, “passion and conquest” attend upon these animals, as noted by a speaker who says that although “all's (*) changed” in the nineteen years since he first counted these animals, their hearts “have not grown old.” A poem titled for one of these animals imagines “the burning roof… and Agamemnon dead.” In another poem, “nine and fifty” of these wild animals gather at Coole. For 10 points, W. B. Yeats wrote about Leda’s abduction by what animal? ■END■
ANSWER: swans [accept “Leda and the Swan” or “The Wild Swans at Coole”; prompt on birds] (“Postscript” is by Seamus Heaney.)
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