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Nov 16, 2020 · In the drama of envisioning a future for the United States, Joe Biden and Donald Trump both invoked stories about snakes to suggest different views about self-interest and the common good.
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.”.
Feb 19, 2024 · The rhyming of “hope and history” echoes the hope and change language President Obama used during his own presidential run in 2008. In quoting the passage, Biden attempted to persuade his audience that he, too, can embody the hope that “justice can rise up.”
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. The passage was quoted by Bill Clinton in his remarks to the community in Derry in 1995 during the Northern Ireland Peace Process. [5]
- Seamus Heaney
- 1990
Using Joe Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention as a start-ing point, in which Biden quoted the famous verse by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney “make hope and history rhyme”, this paper traces how Heaney’s phrase has travelled across geographical, cultural, and conceptual bounda-ries.
Using Joe Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention as a starting point, in which Biden quoted the famous verse by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney “make hope and history rhyme”, this paper traces how Heaney’s phrase has travelled across geographical, cultural, and conceptual boundaries.
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May 31, 2024 · The line that grabbed hold of me was, “And hope and history rhyme.” Those words speak of the hopefulness we can hold on to when suffering. Hope while grieving is so important. It can take a while but when you… “Believe that a further shore is reachable from here,” it helps you keep going.
