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In what way does William Butler Yeats’s poem “From the ‘Antigone’” parallel Sophocles’s Antigone?

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It parallels in such a matter that it deals with topics which are common in Antigone. He adapted the Eros chorus from the Antigone in such a manner that he explains how love is the most powerful entity in the universe, but he also added in the end a twist, that fate and destiny are more powerful, which is a parallelism due to Antigone's fate in the play by Sophocles.
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