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Memorial

An Excavation of the Iliad
Feb 06, 2012JLMason rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Stunningly beautiful language captures the ephemerality of life and the brutality of the deaths in the Iliad. Some examples below. "Like when a god throws a star And everyone looks up To see that whip of sparks And then it's gone" "Like when water hits a rocky dam Its long strong arms can't break those stones And all its pouring rush curls back on itself And bleeds sideways into marshes" "Riding over the battlefield too fast They met a flying spear And like a lift door closing Inexplicable Hephaestus Whisked one of them away And the other died" "Like the high unescapable eye Of the eagle Under whose beam The shadow-swift hare can't hide Pressed flat to the floor Of a leafy wood That loitering eye looks once And kills"