Imagery: Pages 1327 to 1345, Set 1
Passages of vision and blindness imagery from the middle of the play, with line numbers.
ENGLISH 11AP:
Imagery – Oedipus Rex pp. 1327-1345
Vision/Blindness Imagery
A friend so sworn should not be baited so,
In blind malice, and without final proof. (619-620)
You do not know me; but the city knows me,
And in its eyes I am just, if not in yours. (638-639)
I am not sure that the blind man can not see. (703)
Light/Darkness Imagery
How strange a shadowy memory crossed my mind,
Just now while you were speaking; it chilled my heart. (685-686)
Let all my words and actions keep
The laws of the pure universe
From highest Heaven handed down
For Heaven is their bright nurse,
Those generations of the realms of light; (821-826)
Zeus, if indeed you’re lord of all,
Throned in light over night and day,
Mirror this in your endless mind (858-860)
Else he would consider
The new prophecies in the light of the old. (871)