AP Prompt –“To Helen” and “Helen: While the Edgar Allen Poe approaches Helen’s beauty in a much more affectionate manner in the poem “To Helen‚” H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) expresses Helen’s beauty through envy and hatred in her poem‚ “Helen”. In “To Helen” the diction is very specific to evoke a romantic and affectionate style of writing‚ while in “Helen”‚ H.D. chooses her words in a very negative way to show a style of writing that expresses envy. Poe writes‚ “To the glory that was Greece/And the
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aesthetic senses‚ especially the sight. In the poems “Helen”‚ and “To Helen”‚ by Poe and Doolittle‚ both authors recognize Helen’s physical beauty‚ a quality that she is most known for in the ancient world. However‚ this statement proves to be one of the few similarities between the two poems compared to the many differences. Based on Poe’s poem‚ he is very kind and loving toward Helen. On the contrary Doolittle speaks of Helen in a harsh‚ and negative way. These poems clearly show their messages through
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Beauty is often something that many get distracted by. In the poem “To Helen” by Edgar Allen Poe‚ he emphasizes the value of Helen’s beauty. However in Hilda Doolittle poem “Helen” she emphasizes the destruction caused by Helen’s beauty. Together these two poems show two sides of beauty and how it affects those surrounded by it. With beauty being such an attraction for men‚ Poe writing an entire poem on beauty is no surprise. Compared to the meaning of Doolittle’s poem‚ poe’s is about Helen’s head
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Edgar Allan Poe and Hilda Doolittle use diction‚ imagery and tone to offer two distinctly different views of Helen of Troy. Poe gushes over her beauty and Doolittle demonizes her for "past ills". In the Edgar Allan Poe poem the speaker is an admirer of Helen who is professing his love. His tone is one of wonder at her perfection and beauty. With Poe’s diction you can imagine Helen’s majestic beauty. He describes very aptly the "face that launched a thousand ships". The author uses imagery effectively
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meet with other poets such as Wallace Stevens‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Hilda Doolittle‚ and Ezra Pound. She publicized her first poem‚ “To the Soul of Progress’ in the Egoist an English magazine in 1915. A year later Marianne and her mother moved to Chatham‚ New Jersey to keep house for her brother until he graduated and joined the military in 1918. Then Moore and her mother moved to Manhattan. In 1921 her friend Hilda Doolittle published a book titled ‘Poems” which included poems she wrote. Her poems
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03/01/2012 Dreams Hilda Doolittle said‚ "You don’t even know what a dream is; how did it come? It didn’t come‚ it was there" (1886-1961‚ “Dreams“.) Any sequence of images‚ thoughts or feelings going through the mind while sleeping‚ is called a dream‚ however; dreams do not only occur during sleep. Some of the best dreams will occur in the middle of the day‚ while you’re wide awake. A simple thought that crosses your mind‚ or in conversations with others you may find a future dream. According
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Reaching for a goal. Striving to be different. Attempting to meet the expectations of others. William Carlos Williams worked hard throughout his career to reach his goal of perfecting his own simple and modern style of poetry‚ along with the help of some friends. William lived in the era of modernism and was considered to be an imagist poet. Williams strived to write poetry that focused on modern people and everyday situations in the simplest of words. But how did the events and people in his lifetime
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as causing the Trojan War when Paris takes Helen for himself from the Spartan king Menelaus. Thus‚ various questions arise about her beauty‚ most specifically regarding the worth or harm of such a beauty. In fact‚ in Edgar Allen Poe’s To Helen and Hilda Doolittle’s Helen‚ the two poems express two contrasting messages involving Helen’s beauty using literary elements such as tone‚ diction‚ the author’s background‚ different stanza form‚ and imagery. At a first glance at the two poems‚ the difference
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MEG 2 Assignments Ans. 2 Shakespeare’s “Midsummer’s Night Dream” is interwoven with supernatural elements such as fairies‚ elves‚ unrealistic dreams that have been used as a tool to create confusion and therefore comedy within a dream about romance. Like the witches in Macbeth‚ the fairies in “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” are very much a part of life and interact with men and this can be clearly seen when Oberon accuses Titania of having an affair with the mortal Thesus. Dreams within a
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Imagism and Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was one of the greatest poets of the modern era‚ creating a literary movement known as “imagism.” Pound coined the term in 1912 to assist Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) in the marketing of some of her poems. Doolittle was an unknown author‚ and Pound decided that her work would be accepted more easily if she were identified with a group of poets (Dettmar/Watt)‚ such as Richard Aldington and F.S. Flint (“Imagists”). Imagists focused mainly on the “clarity of expression
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