Helen of Troy, by Sara Teasdale and To Helen by, Edgar Allan Poe, are two poems that are used as a rhetorical device to deploy in literary and visual interpretations of Helen and how her beauty is seen. In To Helen, Helen's has served to justify, naturalize, and politicize her role as an object of exchange. Whereas in Edgar Allan Poe's poem, Helen helps the reader connect to the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.
             In this story in rhyme of the fortunes of Helen, the theory that she was an unwilling victim of the Gods has been preferred. Many of the descriptions of manners are versified from the Iliad and the Odyssey. The description of the events after the death of Hector, and the account of the sack of Troy, is chiefly borrowed from Quintus Smyrna us.
             In this story in rhyme of the fortunes of Helen, the theory that she was an unwilling victim of the Gods has been preferred. Many of the descriptions of manners are versified from the Iliad and the Odyssey. The description of the events after the death of Hector, and the account of the sack of Troy, is chiefly borrowed from Quintus Smyrnaeus.
             device deployed in literary and visual representations of Helen, her beauty
             has served to justify, naturalize, and politicize her role as an object of
             exchange. We hope that this issue, through the nexus of Helen, will
             articulate and serve as a springboard for the history of beauty
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