Question

A.delicacy

B.isolation
C.insanity
D.persecution
What impression does the imagery used to depict the subject in these lines from a poem create?


All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.
(from "Helen" by H.D.)
A.delicacy
B.isolation
C.insanity
D.persecution

Answer 1

I would say D, persecution.

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