Ode III speaks directly to love. “Surely you swerve upon ruin/ The just man’s heart, / As here you have made bright anger/ Strike between father and son - ” (218). Despite Creon’s knowledge of his son, Haimon’s love for Antigone, he sentences her to death. Haimon even came to his father in hopes to change his mind. He uses arguments he knows might change his father’s mind and discards all the arguments he knows his father will not accept. However, Creon refutes even all the acceptable arguments. Despite the fact that, Creon loves his son, he does not give Haimon the opportunity to show his father that there could be better ways to do wha

“Now sleepy Death / Summons me down to Acheron, that cold shore: / There is no bridesong there, nor any music” (219). Antigone will never experience the marital bliss she had intended on. Death will overcome her love for Haimon. “O tomb, vaulted bride-bed in eternal rock, / Soon I shall be with my own again / Where Persephonê welcomes the thin ghosts underground” (221).

The love between sisters is even unable to stand up to death. Ismene and Antigone argue about their family. Antigone desperately wants to bury her brother, however Ismene does not want to disobey Creon. Their family has been through enough suffering. These opposing decisions, despite their love for each other, lead to family division. Love could not conquer this conflict. Afterwards Ismene stands up and wants to die with her sister, saying that she had something to do with burying her brother, because she knew about it. However Antigone does not want Ismene to have any part of this. She only stands up for her family afterwards, not when they are actu

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