Chorus from the Cure at Troy
Chorus from the Cure at Troy - meaning Summary
Hope Against Despair
This chorus says that human beings hurt one another and that art cannot simply undo injustice. Even so, it argues against despair: history usually warns against hope, but at rare moments a real change can arrive and make justice possible. The passage asks readers to believe in healing, a greater future, and the chance that hope and history can briefly meet.
Read Complete AnalysesHuman beings suffer. They torture one another. They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. History says, Don’t hope On the 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. So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles. And cures and healing wells. Call miracle self-healing, The utter self-revealing Double-take of feeling. If there’s fire on the mountain And lightning and storm And a god speaks from the sky That means someone is hearing The outcry and the birth-cry Of new life at its term. It means once in a lifetime That justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.
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