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The Beauty Of Helen

Statistics

Counts

Total Pages: 1.28
Total Words: 319
Total Characters: 1455
Number of Sentences: 19

Averages

Words per Sentences: 16.79
Characters per Words: 4.56

Readability

Flesch Reading Ease: 72.57
Fog Scale Level: 9.73
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.31

The Beauty of Helen

            “To Helen” by Edgar Allen Poe is a letter written as a poem to the mythical person, Helen of Troy.  She was believed to be the most beautiful person in Ancient Greece.  Poe describes her beauty by using metaphors and rhymes to give the reader a clear perception of Helen’s beauty.
            In the first stanza Poe uses the sea to describe her beauty.  “That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, / The weary, way-worn wanderer bore / To his own native shore.” (Line 3) This representation displays the fact that her beauty makes him feel as though he were at home.  He feels comforted like some one who has been lost at sea for a long time and
finally finds his way back to his homeland.
            The second stanza symbolizes the features of the fictitious woman that the author very much enjoys.  He describes her face as a timeless masterpiece, her hair
flowing like the sea, her glory, and h...

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