Death of Antigone
This poem is written in the narrative free verse style. I chose this form because it does not give me a limit as to how I should write. It liberates the writing style and expression of the poem. The poem is about the death of Antigone. It tells the moment that Death came and what lead her to her fate. In the poem, Antigone is communicating from beyond the grave, describing her journey with Death, personified, from life to afterlife.
Antigone refused to accept the edicts made by her uncle, the king; she takes on the role quite differently from that of the other more passive women of her time. A woman like no other, she reveals a romantic infatuation with the non-living and turns her rebellion of the King into a noble cause. …show more content…
She accepted death, and how death touches her. ‘I myself will bury him. It will be good to die…. (81-85). Her life was so horrible that she did not see any reason for continuing with the pains of life. ‘if I shall die before….’(506-508). Antigone imagines Death as a lover. In the opening, she is awaiting the arrival of Death; just like a young bride on her wedding night, nervously awaiting her husband. Death has been, and is still being regarded as dark and malevolent. To Antigone, death is her Savior. There is no fear of loss in this poem, only completion. In the poem, Death takes her on an erotic honeymoon …show more content…
It gives a different perspective on the final experience of life: death. Death is described as a sexual creature. I linked death to sexual pleasure. Something that brings pleasure and desire. It’s as if when we die we will get this feeling of sexual satisfaction of an intense moment (like an orgasm). You get the feeling like it’s a one-way ride into blissfulness. You get that heady rush. Everything has to have a positive side, right? Sometimes after sex, you’ll say ‘Damn, I died and went to heaven’. This is the feel positive good outcome. I wanted Antigone to get her wedding night, her feel positive good experience. I have read a lot of paranormal romance books, and nothing or no-one is off limits when it comes to them being the hot hero or heroine. I depicted Death as the hot hero for Antigone. As we all know, Haimon her cousin was chosen for her as a husband. She did not have a say in that choice, so maybe in in some twisted way she wanted to choose her own, so she chose Death. She has courted Death many times by defying her king. “I walked along the river bed in the…. pulled up to me” (4). She went out looking for him and Death in all his glory came. Her courting Death here is to accept the fact and reality of the risk of death. Death becomes her groom. This will be their wedding night. Antigone has never been with anyone before, Death will be her first. He takes her on an erotic journey, where there is no pain, or fear. Antigone knew
This poem is written in the narrative free verse style. I chose this form because it does not give me a limit as to how I should write. It liberates the writing style and expression of the poem. The poem is about the death of Antigone. It tells the moment that Death came and what lead her to her fate. In the poem, Antigone is communicating from beyond the grave, describing her journey with Death, personified, from life to afterlife.
Antigone refused to accept the edicts made by her uncle, the king; she takes on the role quite differently from that of the other more passive women of her time. A woman like no other, she reveals a romantic infatuation with the non-living and turns her rebellion of the King into a noble cause. …show more content…
She accepted death, and how death touches her. ‘I myself will bury him. It will be good to die…. (81-85). Her life was so horrible that she did not see any reason for continuing with the pains of life. ‘if I shall die before….’(506-508). Antigone imagines Death as a lover. In the opening, she is awaiting the arrival of Death; just like a young bride on her wedding night, nervously awaiting her husband. Death has been, and is still being regarded as dark and malevolent. To Antigone, death is her Savior. There is no fear of loss in this poem, only completion. In the poem, Death takes her on an erotic honeymoon …show more content…
It gives a different perspective on the final experience of life: death. Death is described as a sexual creature. I linked death to sexual pleasure. Something that brings pleasure and desire. It’s as if when we die we will get this feeling of sexual satisfaction of an intense moment (like an orgasm). You get the feeling like it’s a one-way ride into blissfulness. You get that heady rush. Everything has to have a positive side, right? Sometimes after sex, you’ll say ‘Damn, I died and went to heaven’. This is the feel positive good outcome. I wanted Antigone to get her wedding night, her feel positive good experience. I have read a lot of paranormal romance books, and nothing or no-one is off limits when it comes to them being the hot hero or heroine. I depicted Death as the hot hero for Antigone. As we all know, Haimon her cousin was chosen for her as a husband. She did not have a say in that choice, so maybe in in some twisted way she wanted to choose her own, so she chose Death. She has courted Death many times by defying her king. “I walked along the river bed in the…. pulled up to me” (4). She went out looking for him and Death in all his glory came. Her courting Death here is to accept the fact and reality of the risk of death. Death becomes her groom. This will be their wedding night. Antigone has never been with anyone before, Death will be her first. He takes her on an erotic journey, where there is no pain, or fear. Antigone knew