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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.”
theconversation.com/when-hope-and-history-rhyme-joe-biden-quotes-an-irish-poet-to-inspire-healing-in-america-149721When ‘hope and history rhyme’: Joe Biden quotes an Irish poet ...
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.
Mar 12, 2011 · When Hope and History Rhymed: Directed by David O'Connor, Kevin Puotinen. With Gerry Adams, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Martin McGuinness. A documentary about the 1998 Good Friday Peace agreement that took place in Northern Ireland.
- David O'connor, Kevin Puotinen
- Gerry Adams, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton
When Hope and History Rhymed (2011) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
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.”.
With timely reference to recent assaults on human rights, including the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, When Hope and History Rhyme has both historical sweep and contemporary significance.
Jan 1, 2013 · WHEN HOPE AND HISTORY RHYME explores Amina's remarkable life from her early childhood to the women's march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August 1956, when a heavily pregnant Amina was one of 20 000 women to march against the pass laws for black women, to her banning, in 1963, for 15 years and the trials and tribulations when her ...
