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To Helen
"To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. It was first published in 1831 collection ''Poems of Edgar A. Poe.'' It was then reprinted in 1836 in the ''Southern Literary Messenger''.
==Analysis==
In "To Helen," Poe is celebrating the nurturing power of woman.〔Kennedy, J. Gerald. "Poe, 'Ligeia,' and the problem of Dying Women" collected in ''New Essays on Poe's Major Tales'', edited by Kenneth Silverman. Cambridge University Press, 1993: 115. ISBN 0-521-42243-4〕 Poe was inspired in part by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, particularly in the second line ("Like those Nicean barks of yore") which resembles a line in Coleridge's "Youth and Age" ("Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore").〔Campbell, Killis. "The Origins of Poe", ''The Mind of Poe and Other Studies''. New York: Russell & Russell, Inc., 1962: 153–154.〕
Poe revised the poem in 1845, making several improvements, most notably changing "the beauty of fair Greece, and the grandeur of old Rome" to "the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome." Poe biographer Jeffrey Meyers referred to these as "two of Poe's finest and most famous lines".〔Jeffrey Meyers, "Edgar Allan Poe," in ''The Columbia History of American Poetry''. Columbia University Press, 1993: 181.〕
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