Comparing Helen And Siren Song

In the poem “Helen” by Hilda Doolittle, and “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood the author shows the non-traditional viewpoint of both poems on characters of Greek Mythology where in “Helen” is about a beautiful and gorgeous woman a demigod who is the daughter of Zeus is hated upon with prejudice by the people around her in Greece, While in “Siren Song” the other is a creature a Siren who cannot stop the fact that her songs kill anyone who hears it, even though she is against the fact her songs keep killing people, and wants to stop it she cannot. In “Helen” by Hilda Doolittle, is about a child of Zeus, named Helen who is a wonderful, beautiful, and gorgeous woman that despite her beauty and wonder is hated by everyone in Greece, for the past actions she has done to them. For example as in the text, “. . . remembering past enchantments and past ills.” as her being too beautiful causing men to leave their spouses and such, that cause anger within other women of Greece, and not wanting to be in a relationship, or to be bedded causing anger within the men of Greece as in the text, “. . . would love indeed the maid, only if she were laid. . .” .This example shows how despite the fact that she is a beautiful woman, and daughter of a god, she is hated by all of Greece. Another example would be how the author says in the text, “. . . the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands, and the white hands. . . the wan face when she smiles, hating it deeper still when it grows wan and white. .