Helen by Edgar Allen Poe vs. Helen by H.D.
Edgar Allan Poe writes about Helen from a place of love and admire. He livens her to a Naiad, or water nymph and personifies her as the human soul who married Cupid, the god of love. Poe respects her and praises her beauty, dictating that her beauty draws people to Greece and Rome, and that her love makes the land holy. The imagry of her face and features create a picture in the reader's mind of a woman that is noble, wholesome, and kind. Poe's tone is respectful but admiring and praising of Helen. He livens Helen to Greece, making them seem dependent on one another. On the contrary, H.D. writes about Helen in a scornful and anary way. She writes that "All Greece hates/reviles/sees..." in a way that makes the reader feel that Greece blames Helen for the Trojan War, her beauty the sole cause. It's almost as though the author is jealous of Helen, be it her beauty or her effect on the people of
The reader's response to the open criticism of Helen is to imagine her as an ugly woman, one that despite her beauty and because of her beauty, she is marked. diction the author uses creates the image of a beautiful woman that is full of disdain, which turns the beautiful woman into a not-so-pretty woman. Poe's poem represents the newer mindset, H. Each has positive attributes, but those contrasted by the cause and effect. Or rather, Helen made Greece and gave Greece the glory that it has today. Poe speaks of being drawn to Greece and that her beauty shows Greece's glory and Rome's granduer.
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