In what way does william butler yeats’s poem “from the ‘antigone’” parallel sophocles’s antigone? the speaker in the poem, as well as the chorus in the play, lament noble antigone’s terrible fate. like the play, the poem has ismene trying to dissuade antigone from defying creon. the poem and play both describe the moment when haemon and eurydice commit suicide after antigone’s death. the end of the poem shows creon reduced to a lonely, decrepit man, as does the play.

Write an adaptation for an audience expecting a modern english answer ! shakespeare’s language: but soft, what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east and juliet is the sun! arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she. be not her maid, since she is envious; her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it. cast it off. it is my lady, o, it is my love! o that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that? her eye discourses, i will answer it. i am too bold: 'tis not to me she speaks. two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyesto twinkle in their spheres till they return. what if her eyes were there, they in her head? the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp. her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so brightthat birds would sing and think it were not night. see how she leans her cheek upon her hand o that i were a glove upon that hand, that i might touch that cheek!

Which theme do all rivers run to the sea and maus share?

Analyze lowell’s use of symbolism in the poem “for the union dead.” explain how lowell’s use of symbolism to develop one or more themes in the text.