Discussion on Literary Topics: repetition
"Death
so many deaths, numberless deaths on deaths, no end -
Thebes is dying, look, her children
stripped of pity...
generations strewn on the ground
unburied, unwept, the dead spreading death
and the young wives and gray-haired mothers with them
cling to the alters, trailing in from all over the city-
Thebes, city of death, one long cortege " (p. 169 lines 204-211)
Here there is a repetition of the word death. A bunch of citizens are talking about all of the deaths that have occurred. They are complaining about these deaths to Oedipus the king. They do not like how there are so many deaths, and they even call their city the "city of death" (211). This repetition gives you a picture of what the city is like from the citizens point of view; there is death and "Thebes is dying" (205). To emphasize this death, it says, "generations strewn on the ground unburied, unwept, the dead spreading death" (207-208). This shows how common it is and how contagious it can be.
"Death
so many deaths, numberless deaths on deaths, no end -
Thebes is dying, look, her children
stripped of pity...
generations strewn on the ground
unburied, unwept, the dead spreading death
and the young wives and gray-haired mothers with them
cling to the alters, trailing in from all over the city-
Thebes, city of death, one long cortege " (p. 169 lines 204-211)
Here there is a repetition of the word death. A bunch of citizens are talking about all of the deaths that have occurred. They are complaining about these deaths to Oedipus the king. They do not like how there are so many deaths, and they even call their city the "city of death" (211). This repetition gives you a picture of what the city is like from the citizens point of view; there is death and "Thebes is dying" (205). To emphasize this death, it says, "generations strewn on the ground unburied, unwept, the dead spreading death" (207-208). This shows how common it is and how contagious it can be.
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