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- These lines are short and direct iambic trimeter, a rhyme scheme often utilized by that other great poet of Irish politics, W.B. Yeats. The triple end-rhyme links them together in the reader’s mind. It is perhaps this layered capacity for empathy and for self-examination, for personal and political change, that would make “hope and history rhyme.”
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Sep 5, 2013 · But one verse of Heaney’s “Doubletake” from The Cure of Troy has echoed in my memory since I first heard it almost a decade ago: “History says don’t hope. On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime. The longed for tidal wave. Of justice can rise up. And hope and history rhyme.”.
Mar 17, 2021 · If Healer-in-Chief Biden proposes his presidency as the moment that “hope and history rhyme” for a damaged American nation, the question arises: what kind of hope? And hope for whom?
Mar 8, 2020 · The Irish For 'Hope & History Rhyme' - the background to a much-quoted line. Joe Biden quoted Seamus Heaney after his Super Tuesday win in the US this week. Darach Ó Séaghdha examines...
Jun 26, 2018 · History says, Don’t hope on this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells. Call the miracle self ...
Sep 1, 2020 · And hope and history rhyme. The resonance of these words when hope is under threat could hardly be overstated; nor could their appeal to politicians seeking the rhetorical grace and moral energy needed to persuade and inspire.
Nov 17, 2020 · Following president-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the United States, a campaign video of him reading Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s verse adaptation of an ancient Greek play went viral. Story ...
