How Is Hellen Presented In To Helen

In the poems, “To Helen” and “Helen”, both Edgar Allan Poe and H.D. emphasize the beauty of the infamous Helen of Troy; however, the speakers’ attitudes differ as one praises and worships Helen while the other condemns her for her treachery and remains unmoved by her beauty.

The Greek mythology presents Medusa as a monster, with the power to turn anyone who looks into her eyes to stone and with snakes that replicate her hair. But, in the poem by Mary Sarton “The Muse As Medusa” we see an incomparable image of Medusa to the Greek mythology. In this poem Medusa helps the speaker through a difficult time. The speaker depicts herself through her poem as someone who is lost, sad and defeated by the world around her. The speaker sees herself in Medusa, where they are both misinterpreted by the world around them. Medusa being powerful is able to cope with the world's misconception of her and shows the speaker how that's possible. The speaker takes into account how the world is the one that misinterpreted them and

Mary Wroth alludes to mythology in her sonnet “In This Strange Labyrinth” to describe a woman’s confused struggle with love. The speaker of the poem is a woman stuck in a labyrinth, alluding to the original myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The suggestion that love is not perfect and in fact painful was a revolutionary thing for a woman to write about in the Renaissance. Wroth uses the poem’s title and its relation to the myth, symbolism and poem structure to communicate her message about the tortures of love.

Throughout history treason has been committed all over the world even extending back to the greeks during the trojan war. Treason is committed for many reasons such as money, fame, political and religious beliefs, fame, and in the case with Helen it was love. Punishment for being found guilty of treason can range from death to imprisonment for no less than 5 years, during the time of the Trojan war if one was found guilty the punishment would most likely be death. Although Helen is under a spell from Aphrodite, she is guilty of treason because during her “abduction” she showed no signs of resistance.

However, Helen possessed a character of being destructive to the people of Troy. She was an emotional person, along with the other women in the Iliad; nevertheless, Helen’s character had more of an influence because she was the cause of the Trojan War. She was one of the demi-gods described in the epic and her representation of the female stereotype was that they possessed a destructive beauty that could only bring harm to the human race. Helen was shamed for her seductive beauty and she was recognized more as a possession. As a result of that shame, Homer emphasized the passiveness of women through Helen’s character, especially during the conversation between Paris and Menelaus when they were deciding her fate. Instead of taking advantage of the her situation and acting more as a hero Helen expressed her interest in the war by weaving instead of speaking up for fate. She also leaves the audiences with the impression that women were helpless during the time of Homer. They were not able to speak up for themselves for lack of education, status, or power. Therefore women were represented as obstacles for men to

Helen of Troy, also known as the face that launched a thousand ships, is a Greek character known for being the most beautiful woman in the Greek mythological world. Her beauty was a cause worth fighting for, and in some cases, losing lives for. Yet, there is more to Helen than meets the eye. Two authors, Edgar Allan Poe and Hilda Doolittle, describe Helen in two completely distinct ways in their poems. Poe describes Helen as a goddess, while Doolittle describes Helen as physically and internally hideous. According to Poe, Helen’s beauty causes not only all of Greece, but all of Rome as well, to worship her like the goddess she resembles. Doolittle, however, narrates Helen as the person that Greece hates for all the suffering and loss that she made them go through. Poe presents Helen as someone who makes a whole country and another city feel like they are in heaven, while Doolittle presents Helen as the person responsible for leaving all of Greece in a state of despair, and essentially, living in hell. Poe uses his poem to describe Helen as someone who left people with their jaw open in admiration while Doolittle uses her poem to describe Helen as someone who has left the society that fought for her in a state of distress.

Louise Glück’s poem A Myth of Devotion describes a battle of right versus wrong with ambiguous statements that are frequently contradicted by Hades’ own thoughts. The title begins the ongoing battle of good versus evil that Hades struggles with, by using the words “myth” and “devotion”. The word “myth” is commonly defined as being a legend or untrue story. When this word is coupled with the term “devotion”, an earnest attachment, the character of Hades presents as an infatuated individual rather than one who cares for Persephone’s character.

This essay will compare two theories of myth – Max Müller’s natural allegory and Carl Jung’s Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious (Dowden, 1992, pp. 17-23) – and their effectiveness in analyzing Demeter’s response to the Rape of Persephone, from the Homeric Hymns (Homeric Hymns pp.169-177, translated in Trzaskoma et al., 2004). Demeter’s myth can be divided into two parts: one that describes her days in the House of Celeos and one that describes earth’s long sustained famine due to Demeter’s sorrow until her daughter’s return. At a glance, it may seem as though Jung’s theory fits better on one part of the myth and Müller’s theory fits the other part. Upon a closer read, however, it is Jung’s theory which explains both stories together as a whole; I will argue that Jung’s theory of the Collective Unconscious better shows societal concerns present during when this myth was told.

emphasizes her disgust toward Helen because she is a curse to Greece by starting the Trojan War. Both poets are depicting her beauty through the use of tone, diction, and imagery illustrating physical beauty as an obsession.

Myths became very popular in Greece and they were told to explain the logic behind events, which suggests that the myths are very much orthopraxy. Eventually, these poems intertwined with the culture and history of Greece. As a result, the poems contain many hidden meanings, which will be explained in this essay. The two theories that will be referred to explain the excerpt, Pandora from Hesiod’s Theogony (Theogony 573 – 620, translated in Trzaskoma et al., 2004), are Allegory and Structuralism.

A Comparison of the Relationship between Paris and Helen and the Relationship between Hector and Andromache

The first poem A Myth of Devotion is by Louise Glück. This poem speaks of the unlit world Hades made for Persephone. In his perspective, the reader can see the anxiety Hades feels within this fruitless world he offers to Persephone. The world resembles the muchness of earth, but lacks the reality of taste and smell; two loves of Persephone. When he dreams he’s thinking of all the names he could call this new world built by his own hands, but none is sweeter than Persephone’s Girlhood. Hades, the god of the everlasting underworld, feels warmth, a kind love towards Persephone as they lay entangled on the bed he made. He wants to tell her that love, but all he can make out are a few words more promising: “you’re dead, nothing can hurt you,” (Glück, par. 11).

Greece is a country located west of Turkey and southeast of Italy which is famous for all the greek mythology that has been created. Within the context of greek mythology “Sibylla” or “Sibyl” means a prophetess, which within both of our poems which are based on the extensive greek mythology, a character by the name of Sibylla appears and decides to take an action that would cost her a great amount. Within the poem “The Sibyl becomes Gray and Decrepit’ By Ovid, there is a storyin which a character was not careful in what she wished for and let her ambition and desires get the best of her, she had to pay a great price. This poem depicts the characters wishes and desires which all end up becoming true. Sibylla, one of the characters in Ovid’s poem, Becomes old after wishing for

Situations of unpleasant interactions between people are common even in our societies. At least each person has at one time has experienced a terrible or unpleasant interaction with another person. In the play No Exit by Sartre and the poems The Waste Land by Eliot, there are similar unpleasant interactions depicted. No Exit is a play consisting of three characters Inez, Garcin, and Estelle who are in hell damned in one room. The characters had thought hell was a place for punishment but rather found themselves in a room well furnished. However, all the characters refuse to admit to their damnation reasons. The Waste Land on the other hand is a collection of poems that delve in war, disillusionment, death, and trauma themes to show the effects of World War I. Therefore, the focus of this essay is to discuss unpleasant interpersonal situations depicted in the two texts and that are similar.

The second of the two poems, ‘Leda and the Swan’, takes us back to the first era of destruction, cruelty and war, before the epoch of Christianity. It tells the mythical tale of Leda being