history says don't hope on this side of the grave meaning
The Cure at Troy The passage was quoted by Bill Clinton in his remarks to the community in Londonderry in 1995 during the Northern Ireland Peace Process,[2] and by Joe Biden at the memorial service for Sean Collier, a campus police officer who was killed in the line of duty during the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.[3] In the opening chorus of the play, Heaney's translation emphasizes the role of poetry as "the voice of reality and justice"[4] in expressing "terrible events".[5]