Question
In what way does William Butler Yeats's poem "From the 'Antigone" paralel Sophocles's Antigone?
• A. The speaker in the poem, and the chorus in the play, lament noble Antigone's terrible fate
• B. Like the play. the poem has Ismene trying to dissuade Antigone from defying Creon.
C. The poem and play both describe the moment when haemon and Eurydice perish.
• D. The end of the poem shows Creon reduced to a lonely, decrepit man, as does the play.
Answer
A. The speaker in the poem, and the chorus in the play, lament noble Antigone's terrible fate.