This character is invoked by a speaker who says, "Touch me and you'll burn" and defies demands to stop dancing as a stripper in a poem where this character "Does Countertop Dancing."
This character is invoked by a speaker who says, "Touch me and you'll burn" and defies demands to stop dancing as a stripper in a poem where this character "Does Countertop Dancing." An Imagist poet viciously attacks this character's "still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives." In "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," William Carlos Williams' speaker claims, "All womenÂ… have" this character "in their hearts." H.D. wrote a series exploring an alternative myth about this woman, titled this woman "in (*) Egypt." Edgar Allen Poe invokes "Nicean barks of yore" to describe the effect of this woman, who leaves Menelaus for a son of Priam. For 10 points, name this woman whose legendary beauty and elopement with Paris started the Trojan War.
This character is invoked by a speaker who says, "Touch me and you'll burn" and defies demands to stop dancing as a stripper in a poem where this character "Does Countertop Dancing."
Helen of Troy [accept "Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing"; accept "Helen"; accept "Helen in Egypt"; accept "To Helen"] 