A poem names this person and a goddess as “fine women” who “eat a crazy salad with their meat whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone.” That poem laments that this person “found life flat and dull and later had much trouble from a fool.” Another poem claims that, if we lived in this person’s time, we like the rest would have given but “a word and a jest.” This person had a mind “that nobleness made simple as a fire,” according to a poem that refuses to blame her for teaching “ignorant men most violent ways.” This woman’s parents title a poem in which “a shudder in the loins” leads to “the broken wall, the burning roof and tower / and Agamemnon dead.” That poem describes this woman’s mother as “the staggering girl” beneath “the great wings beating still.” For 10 points, name this stand-in for Maud Gonne whom W. B. Yeats wrote about in “No Second Troy.” ■END■
ANSWER: Helen of Troy [or Helena or Helénē; or Helen of Sparta; prompt on Maud Gonne until read by asking “what mythological figure is a stand-in for Maud Gonne in these poems?”] (The unnamed poems are “A Prayer for My Daughter,” “When Helen Lived,” and “Leda and the Swan.”)
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