"Photograph", strategically deploys the Biblical myth of Abraham and Isaac to illuminate the communist idea that the end justifies the means, that the immediate sacrifice is justified by the millennial outcome:my little boy my Isaac bend your head
just a moment of pain and then you will be
anything you like - a swallow a lily of the valley.
Abraham thinks he is preserving Isaac's innocence and rewarding him with freedom.
from Telegraph: Zbigniew Herbert: The Collected Poems--review: Lies have to be beautiful
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