Logue is recreating the Bronze Age and in his version of the Iliad, metal gleams.

‘Eyelight like sun on tin.’

Source: Christopher Logue, War Music: An account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer’s Iliad, London: Faber and Faber, 2001, p. 173

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