Beauty is a key to unlock both chaos and muse. Using contrasted tone, diction, and speaker, two authors show the difference in one person based upon different viewpoints. Both Edgar Allen Poe and Hilda Doolittle have written about the influential woman, Helen of Troy. These two authors will go on to tell you that Helen is a beautiful lady that is admired and loved or if she is a danger to all and causes disorder all around.
To begin, the speaker in Poe and H.D.’s pieces both severely vary, you can certainly tell this by just the titles. Edgar Allen Poe’s poem is entitled as “to Helen,” Poe poses as if he was directly talking to her. Unlike Poe, Doolittle’s title is simply “Helen,” indicating that she is talking about Helen, rather than talking
To begin, the speaker in Poe and H.D.’s pieces both severely vary, you can certainly tell this by just the titles. Edgar Allen Poe’s poem is entitled as “to Helen,” Poe poses as if he was directly talking to her. Unlike Poe, Doolittle’s title is simply “Helen,” indicating that she is talking about Helen, rather than talking