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'The Trojan War'.
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Paper 1 Practice Commentary on Menelaus and Helen by Rupert Brooke Menelaus and Helen are the main characters of the poem, hence, its title. This draws the readers' attention mostly to the characters rather than to the Trojan myth. The title could have been, 'The Trojan War', but rather than doing this, Brooke focused mostly on the main characters, for the poem is more about them, than about the actual happening of the Trojan War. The perspective, and of whose point of view the poem has been written, does not change. It is always from Menelaus point of view of what is happening. Both in part one which describes the scene of the Trojan War, and how Helen has been captured by Paris and is token away from Menelaus, and in part two, which talks about the future, and supposition of how Menelaus and Helen would be years...
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