Read Teiresias’s lines from Scene 1 of Oedipus the King and answer the question. You are a king. But where argument’s concerned I am your man, as much a king as you. I am not your servant, but Apollo’s. I have no need of Creon to speak for me. Listen to me. You mock my blindness, do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind: You cannot see the wretchedness of your life,

What is the significance of the above statement in relation to the play’s conclusion?

Oedipus treats his inferiors poorly but ultimately grants them the same respect he grants to nobility.

While Teiresias appears to be mocking Oedipus, the real message is one of warning about the forces working against the king.

Oedipus earns great fame for answering the riddle of the Sphinx but ultimately loses his crown to a common man

Just as Oedipus is unable to conceive that he has done wrong in the past, he is unable to imagine that his enviable position is impermanent.

This excerpt is from “the poet” by alfred, lord tennyson. the poem describes a poet's consciousness and perception. which three lines suggest the richness of a poet's thoughts? thus truth was multiplied on truth, [the world like one great garden show'd,] and thro' the wreaths of floating dark upcurl'd, rare sunrise flow'd. [and freedom rear'd in that august sunrise] her beautiful bold brow, when rites and forms before his burning eyes melted like snow. [there was no blood upon her maiden robes] sunn'd by those orient skies; but round about the circles of the globes of her keen eyes and in her raiment's hem was traced in flame wisdom, a name to shake [all evil dreams of power--a sacred name.] and when she spake, [her words did gather thunder as they ran,] and as the lightning to the thunder which follows it, riving the spirit of man, making earth wonder, so was their meaning to her words. no sword of wrath her right arm whirl'd, [ but one poor poet's scroll, and with 'his' word] she shook the world.