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The poet Michael Longley
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He wrote a poem which contains the line: 'He knelt and kissed the hand that killed his son...'
I think the poem deals with the difficult process of reconciliation after war. Anyone know its title?
I think the poem deals with the difficult process of reconciliation after war. Anyone know its title?
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It's from Homer's Iliad, and I think it's...
Found it! "One of Longley’s most famous poems, “Ceasefire,” is a sonnet that retells the meeting at the end of the Iliad between King Priam of Troy and the Greek hero Achilles, who has killed the king’s son Hector. The publication of this sonnet in the Irish Times in 1994 coincided with the announcement of a ceasefire by the militant Irish Republican Army."
From http://www.centenary.edu/news/2003/October/corrington0304.html
Found it! "One of Longley’s most famous poems, “Ceasefire,” is a sonnet that retells the meeting at the end of the Iliad between King Priam of Troy and the Greek hero Achilles, who has killed the king’s son Hector. The publication of this sonnet in the Irish Times in 1994 coincided with the announcement of a ceasefire by the militant Irish Republican Army."
From http://www.centenary.edu/news/2003/October/corrington0304.html
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