Monday, January 13, 2003

From The 'Antigone' Comments

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Overcome - O bitter sweetness,
Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl -
The rich man and his affairs,
The fat flocks and the fields' fatness,
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William Butler Yeats
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Kylie Murray 10 September 2020

The first stanza is figurative language. All of the lines in the stanza consists of metaphors. The poem is using pathos. They are using metaphors to appeal to the emotions of the reader.

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William Butler Yeats

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