Has Sweeny died in “Sweeny Among the Nightingales” by T. S. Eliot? Character of Sweeny.

“Sweeny Among the Nightingales” is written by T. S. Eliot. In this poem Sweeny is a character like playboy who likes to flirt with women. He uses women for his own physical need. When his demand is finished, he left them. 

Eliot talks about a Sweeney whose face is like an ape and he is sitting in a café spreading his knees. A waitress comes to him who wears a Spanish cap. She sits on his knee and wants to seduce him. But Sweeney doesn’t responding to her proposal. Because he thinks that it can be a trap to take revenge from him by falling him in danger.  When realizes about it, he pushes her aways from him. Then waitress feels bored. By her continuous activities to fall him in trap but she fails then she left when Sweeney pushes her away. 

Then second waitress comes to him whom the poet addressed by the name of Rachende Rabinovitch. When she sees Sweeney, she tweaks him. He suspects that Rabinovitch and the waitress with Spanish cape could be in a same group plotting against him. Though he is very drunk, his eyes become very heavy but due to his doubt, he leaves the café and stands outside the window leaning in and starts grinning to think about that he is successful to fail their plan. 

By that time, the pub owner sees that their first plan goes down, then he goes out and to talk Sweeney to let him busy. At that moment the two ladies come out from the café and stand behind Sweeney with knife with full of aggression. 

The poet does not clarify about the death of Sweeney. Here could be raise a question that is Sweeney actually died or not. But there is a hint the poem gives referencing Agamemnon. When Clytemnestra stabbed Agamemnon, he died. As the poet giving the reference of Agamemnon’s death sequence is Sweeney in Sweeney’s death sequence. So, it can be said that Sweeney has died.