Love To Helen In Edgar Allen Poe's To Helen

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Two men with feelings for the same women but,they have very different views of her. One of them who have so much love and compassion that he see her as a goddess while, the other one who hate burns so much that he view her as the devil himself or herself. With the speaker's tone, smilies, and metaphors the reader can contrast the two speaker's views of Helen.
Edgar Allen Poe, the author of To Helen, use smilies, metaphor, and speaker's tone to describe his love to helen. In the first stanza, the speaker speaks of how her beauty effects of make him feel." Like those Nicean bark of yore, that gently, o'er a perfum'd sea, The weary way - worn wanderer bore to his own native shore." In this quote the reader can tell he use a simile ti compare Helen's beauty to the Nicean barks. But what …show more content…

Before he could barely control his emotion and was calm but, he can no longer control his emotions. In lines 11 and 12 the speakes breaks out and basically started to praise her beauty. He again use simile to compare her beauty to a " statue like " because she's as beautiful as if she was a work of art.
Which is totally different from HD's views , the author of Helen, who hatered burns so deep that just he dose not you a introduction or try to ease it in he just say " All of greece hates" Helen there is no misunderstanding about it. The speaker's tone only fuels this fire of hate.
In the second stanza " reviles" the hate and disgust that all of greece has and she brings bad things to Greece."The wan face when They hate her smile and they remember her past " enchantmets " or troubles she brought. But in the third stanza his hatered finally turned in to madness. Saying the only way to bring and have peace if she dies and she be turn into ashes. Being the only way that they could love the " God's daughter "
By using similes, metaphors, and the speaker's tone the reader can contrast the two speaker's views of

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