The Cure at Troy
Nine years after his own side marooned him on Lemnos with a snakebite that will not close, an archer still holds the bow the Greeks need to take Troy, and the men who abandoned him send a young soldier to lie it out of him. The chorus breaks off the argument to speak of self-pity, stone walls, and a longed-for tidal wave of justice where hope and history rhyme. Heaney's version for Field Day, quoted in peace-process speeches ever since.
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- adapts ↑ Philoctetes
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