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“To Helen”
by Edgar Allan Poe, page 55
Vocabulary
barks – boats
Naiad – resembling a water-nymph of Greek mythology
agate – chalk
1. Find an allusion Poe makes to Greek mythology in this poem other than the reference to the
Naiads.
2. To compare Helen’s beauty with “Nicean barks of yore,” Poe employs what literary
device?
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