on proceedings in the last stanza when, finally departing from Antigone, the poem evolves into a fatalistic tragedy-in-miniature, a progression of violence where man "becomes his own enemy". However, by sowing seeds of both apocalypse and renewal into the poem’s closing lines, Logue does not foreclose on hope but leaves us free to ponder our relationship to the complex dynamic between past, present and possible futures. The Chorus of the Secret Police
(From a version of Antigone)
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: The Chorus of the Secret Police
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