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"