has a completely different opinion on Miss Helen. Right off the bat we can see the huge difference in the poems, “All Greece hates” he says it clearly in the first line. There is no small amount of love for Helen, to H.D. she is a hated woman, not just hated by him but by all of Greece. In the second stanza we see just how deep and rooted the hate for Helen is, “All Greece reviles...the wan face when she smiles,” this poor woman is just smiling and all of Greece hates it, “deeper still...wan and white” they don’t like it even more when she doesn’t smile, there is nothing she can do to please Greece. In the third stanza H.D. spells it out for us “coul love indeed the maid,... laid,...white ash amid funereal cypresses.” the only way that Greece could love Helen is if Helen is dead and cremated, they all want her
has a completely different opinion on Miss Helen. Right off the bat we can see the huge difference in the poems, “All Greece hates” he says it clearly in the first line. There is no small amount of love for Helen, to H.D. she is a hated woman, not just hated by him but by all of Greece. In the second stanza we see just how deep and rooted the hate for Helen is, “All Greece reviles...the wan face when she smiles,” this poor woman is just smiling and all of Greece hates it, “deeper still...wan and white” they don’t like it even more when she doesn’t smile, there is nothing she can do to please Greece. In the third stanza H.D. spells it out for us “coul love indeed the maid,... laid,...white ash amid funereal cypresses.” the only way that Greece could love Helen is if Helen is dead and cremated, they all want her