Question

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.

Answer 1

The way that William Butler Yeat's poem "From the Antigone" is parallel to Sophocle's Antigone is the speaker in the poem, as well as the chorus in the play, lament noble Antigon'e terrible fate. The poem only speaks about a woman who is dying. This woman is most likely Antigone. None of the other statements are mentioned in the poem. The correct answer is A.