1. Dirce was a woman, who, after a large amount of tragedy, was murdered. The god Dionysus created a stream where she was murdered, commemorating her death. The significance of the two armies fighting next to the stream is that here is a place where a woman was murdered, and something beautiful was created. But for the two armies, people were killed next to this stream, but there was no commemorative creation. Instead more violence and death was created, not something life giving.
2. Windy phrases mean that Polyneices, the commander of one of the army, was continuously giving orders, creating a whirlwind of orders. The windy phrases was used to contrast the two pr others, one an overwhelming dictator, and the other a calm captain.
3. Metaphor "He the wild eagle screaming"
Simile " Rose like a dragon behind him, shouting war"
4. The parados is referencing man as a whole. The men in the army, and the the men affected by the deaths.
5. "... his noisy power"
" Or pine fire took the garland of the towers"
6. The his in line 100 is referring to Polyneices.
7. We are to think of either the sound or the movement of the tongue when we read the word "Bray"
8. He and his in lines 107-110 is referring to God. Their in line 110 is referring to the people who worship the god.
9. Summary of lines 119-122
These brothers united by blood, will fight only to be killed the same way they killed the other.
10. This in not personification. The city of Thebes is singing, yet its the people that are singing, not the actual city.
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