{"id":1385,"date":"2024-08-31T07:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:16:08","slug":"on-the-nature-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/31\/on-the-nature-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Nature of Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem227.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem227.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem227-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem227-768x572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to describe the indescribable<br>is a mug&#8217;s game.<br><br>There are no stories<br>beyond the power of words,<br>for stories are words.<br><br>As we try to get at the magic of experience,<br>the enchantment that can transcend facts<br>and transmute reality,<br>\u2026it turns into a story<br>born of words<br>and limited by them.<br>It rhymes and writhes,<br>but artifice of language<br>only hints<br>at possibility<br>of something deeper;<br>it makes your reader work,<br>inventing meaning,<br>while losing your experience forever<br>and making you redundant\u2026<br>What a pity!<br><br>Poor poet &#8211;<br>forever betrayed by your tools<br>turning experience into stories,<br>visceral into abstract,<br>dreams into &#8211; what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to describe the indescribableis a mug&#8217;s game. There are no storiesbeyond the power of words,for stories are words. As we try to get at the magic of experience,the enchantment that can transcend factsand transmute reality,\u2026it turns into a storyborn of wordsand limited by them.It rhymes and writhes,but artifice of languageonly hintsat possibilityof something deeper;it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[118,19,23,323,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}