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Helen -H.D (Hilda Doolittle)

All Greece hates

the still eyes in the white face,

the lustre as of olives

where she stands,

and the white hands.

All Greece reviles

the wan face when she smiles,

hating it deeper still

when it grows wan and white,

remembering past enchantments

and past ills.

Greece sees unmoved,

God's daughter, born of love,

the beauty of cool feet

and slenderest knees,

could love indeed the maid,

only if she were laid,

white ash amid funereal cypresses.

  • Beauty is both a treasure and a curse.
  • Perfection
  • No emotion towards Helen.
  • H.D describes the growing hatred of Helen.(General Theme).
  • Clues on we know Helen is a statue: still eyes, cold feet, pale,slender, ash white, amid funeral (Negative description)
  • 3 Themes towards to the poem: Appearances, Hate, & Woman's role

Moral of the poem

Helen

  • The most beautiful woman of the world.
  • Said to be Zeus daughter, (Zeus was inform of a swan) who impregnated Leda, the mortal wife of the king of Sparta, Tyndareus.
  • Menelaus was wealthy and powerful man who wed to Helen because of the political choice of Tyndareus.
  • Helen was kidnapped by the Prince of Troy Paris. Helen really didn't mind being kidnapped because she was in love with Paris

H. D

"The face that launched a thousand ships"

Hilda Doolittle

Born: September 10, 1886

Influence by Ezra Pound

Work : Imagists, classical mythology, economy language, lyric and epic

First woman to earn Award of Merit Medal for poetry.

Bisexual (Gay rights/ feminist movements)

Death: 1961

No relations with Dr.Dolittle

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