La presencia del mito clásico en “To Helen” (I y II) de Edgar Allan Poe

  1. Marta Mariño Mexuto
Zeitschrift:
Futhark: revista de investigación y cultura

ISSN: 1886-9300

Datum der Publikation: 2018

Nummer: 13

Seiten: 53-63

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.12795/FUTHARK.2018.I13.03 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

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Zusammenfassung

Both of the poems by E. A. Poe entitled To Helen, even though they were dedicated to different women, share an obvious classic base, in which the feminine archetype represented by Helen of Troy meets other myths and merges into the real people who inspired both poems. Leaving aside the mythical and geographic references which we may find, the most important element is Poe’s vision of the classic world and how he expressed it in his works, an aspect which has been frequently overlooked.