Thursday, March 18, 2010

I'm back !!!


Myth’s river – where his mother
dipped him, fished him, a
slippery golden boy flowed on,
his name on its lips.

Without him, it was prophesied,
they would not take Troy.

Women hid him, concealed him
in girls’ sarongs; days of
sweetmeats, spices, silver songs …

But when Odysseus came, with an
athlete’s build, a sword and a shield,
he followed him to the battlefield,
the crowd’s roar,

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But then his heel, his heel, his heel …

Identify the protagonist of the poem. 


8 comments:

  1. Achilles!
    maybe you should blank out "myth's river" and "heel"

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  2. Achilles!
    maybe you should remove "myth's river" and "heel"
    cheers, nice question anyway

    can you add my blog
    http://the-quizzard.blogspot.com/
    to your blogroll
    I shall do the same.
    Thanks,
    Nihar

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  3. david beckham...
    i too watched sports center...!
    :P
    good question..

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  4. Carol Ann Duffy! hehe this is related to Beckham's injury rite !

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