Comprehension Passage

Read the given poem and answer the following questions - 

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.

Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

(Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats)

What is the poet referring to in the following lines?

"The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead."

1
The child conceived will shape mythical history by causing the fall of Troy and the death of the Greek King Agamemnon.
2
The child conceived will shape mythical history by causing the death of Zeus.
3
The child conceived will shape mythical history by causing the death of Leda.
4
The child conceived will fall in love with Agamemnon.

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