A literary essay to analyze the theme of a poem Your essay should be 4-5 well-developed paragraphs. Carefully analyze the theme of your chosen poem and support your analysis with paraphrase, summary, and quotes. Review the assignment carefully so you know what will be expected.

Remember to

Write your essay in the third person

Discuss the poem in the present tense

Use transitional words and phrases

Use appropriate verbs

Use literary terms

please chose a poem and analyze it using the above requirements

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.