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Oedipus Rex, what metaphor does Sophocles use in lines 25-26?

in oedipus rex what metaphor does Sophocles use in lines 25-26?

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Lines 25 and 26 speak to the literal plague that affects the city, and which acts as a metaphor for the ‘pollution’ within it: namely Oedipus himself.

out of the depths, out of the bloody surf.

A blight is on the fruitful plants of the earth.

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