“Helen” by Hilda Doolittle Essay

The first thought I come up with when course session Doolittles Helen is the extreme difference between her poesy, and Poes poem, Helen. Doolittle and Poe both suck up Helen using her face, eyes, legs, hands, and knees however, Doolittle expresses the talkers ontogeny hatred of Helen while Poe adores her deeply.Doolittle makes an elicit choice when she says all Greece instead of all Greeks. She appears to be referring to more than sightly the people of Greece, but instead the entire culture that lies within Greece. Doolittle expands upon the speakers hatred of Helen by including all Greece, especially with her continual mathematical function of such dark and descriptive manner of speaking as hate and revile. I find it interesting that Doolittle starts the first two stanzas with all Greece and the third words describing an extreme dislike, and ease begins the final (third) stanza with Greece sees unmoved still being supercilious towards Helen. The entire poem remains with th e same theme, and continues being both graphical and descriptive.In the first stanza Helen is described with words like olive and albumin which are both associated with beauty, but she is also described as having still eyes which creates the idea of a statue like person. The second stanza becomes more heterogeneous with Helen being detested by Greece. She is described as wan and growing nauseousr (white). She is remembering what she did wrong in her past, and this begins to change her beautiful appearance. In the end, Helen progresses to both a completely statue-like stage, or perhaps even conclusion. She is unmoved with poise feet, white, and amid funereal cypresses. These words are most associated with death, the skin is a pale color almost white, and they are cold to the touch, just as Helen is described. She goes into this statue/death stage being hated by Greece for causing the Trojan War.The poem encompasses the fact that Greece has no mercy for Helen, even when she smi les. The only way for her to take a leak compassion, love, and mercy is through her death.