Oedipus: Related Literature Texts
Oedipus: Connections in Literature (RL)
1. Choose one of the fictional texts (poem/short story) below.
2. Read the text and look for references/allusions to either the characters, events, symbols, or motifs found in Oedipus.
3. Complete the Online Reading Literature Analysis Form for the text you selected.
- Reading Literature (RL) Online Analysis Form
- Hannah Battersby's Poem "The Fable of the Sphynx"
- Alfred Tennyson's Poem "Tiresias"
- Mureil Rukeyser's Poem "Myth"
- Edwin Robinson's Poem "Eros Turannos"
- Tom Lehrer's Song "Oedipus Rex"
- Esima Chiba's Poem "Thebes"
- Neal Emanuelson's Poem "Oedipus Rex"
- John Milton's Poem "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
- Langston Hughes' Poem "Mother to Son"
- Shakespeare's King Lear: Motif of Blindness
- H.G. Wells' "The Country of the Blind" Short Story (Retold by Stringer)
- Ralph Ellison's Short Story "Battle Royal"
- Emily Dickinson's Poem "It Feels a Shame to be Alive"
- Lord Alred Douglas' Poem "In Praise of Shame"
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poem "To the Oracle at Delphi"
- Sylvia Plath's Poem "On the Decline of Oracles"