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Colonus Poems - Poems about Colonus


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...‘One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.’ - Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus While we’re in the vertiginous first throws of being in love, Cupid......

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Categories: colonus, love, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Oedipus the King of Thebes, Iii
...--Isn’t She a Daughter of Oedipus?-- Isn’t she Antigone? In search of a fallen prince, who roams in the battlefield where the corpses of defeated warriors lie gruesomely in streams of blood. ......

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Categories: colonus, allegory, anxiety, brother, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Oedipus the King of Thebes, Ii
...--Who Has no Tomb to Rest His Soul-- After the long, long wandering in the wasteland, sometimes by the sea where the roaring wind surges the waters, or times in the highland where the dews chil......

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Categories: colonus, allegory, anxiety, death, father
Form: Dramatic Verse

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