10-01-2021, 12:37 PM
(10-01-2021, 06:01 AM)dukealien Wrote: Eye of AjaxI like the idea, but the parallel is confusing
As war becomes remote-controlled
it paradoxically grows less remote:
video from tele-guided missile
riding it to local execution
no less personal than brawny Ajax
crushing Trojans with a boulder.
No wonder their opponents drag
such Americans as they can catch
through their village like Achilles
‘round the fated walls of Troy.
If America is the Greeks, because of Ajax, then the villagers dragging Hector’s body wouldn’t hold.
America would also be Achilles, not Hector.