Writing about writing
For me, Seamus Heaney put it best:
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.
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I love it. Since I found the official inaugural poem execrable, I’m collecting poems and statements that mean more. This one is going on my wall.
VP Biden quoted this poem at one of the inaugural balls. Irish poets say it best!
I thought that the Inauguration Poem was a good piece of contemporary American poetry – but that it was diminished by a very stilted delivery – and that made it fall flat. It should have been read “gospel style” – like the closing benediction. But I digress.