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.

What is the significance of the above statement in relation to the play’s conclusion? oedipus treats his inferiors poorly but ultimately grants them the same respect he grants to nobility. while teiresias appears to be mocking oedipus, the real message is one of warning about the forces working against the king. oedipus earns great fame for answering the riddle of the sphinx but ultimately loses his crown to a common man. just as oedipus is unable to conceive that he has done wrong in the past, he is unable to imagine that his enviable position is impermanent.