{"id":209,"date":"2014-06-24T22:49:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2014-06-24T11:49:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T17:49:55","slug":"poetism-commentary-weep-for-the-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/poetism-commentary-weep-for-the-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetism Commentary: &#8220;Weep For The Damned&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poem in question: <a href=\"\/pp\/weep-for-the-damned\/\">Weep For The Damned<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also wrote this poem while sitting in a class at BYU. \u00a0It seems I did a lot of that in 1998. \u00a0By my count, there are nine poems that I wrote either during class or for a class assignment, or were at least written down in the notebook that I carried with me to school every day. \u00a0This particular poem was written during a class called American Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be a throwback to <a href=\"\/pp\/aftermath\/\">Aftermath<\/a> and <a href=\"\/pp\/achievement\/\">Achievement<\/a>, at least by the subject. \u00a0I think I was just bored in class one day and started writing. \u00a0I guess I just like morbid battleground scenes. \u00a0I do think it&#8217;s an interesting idea that the survivors were driven mad by what they had experienced, and eventually the madness started to spread. \u00a0It reminds me of Mordeth in the <em>Wheel of Time<\/em> books. \u00a0Who knows, maybe that&#8217;s what I was thinking of at the time.<\/p>\n<p>There is one oddity: one copy I have of this poem changes the punctuation on two lines, but I&#8217;m not sure how much it affects the poem itself. \u00a0I&#8217;ll let you be the judge. \u00a0Instead of<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Haunted faces stare about;<br \/>\nDisabused by fear and doubt,<br \/>\nThe scant survivors sigh relief and drop their weary heads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>it reads<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Haunted faces stare about,<br \/>\nDisabused by fear and doubt.<br \/>\nThe scant survivors sigh relief and drop their weary heads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem in question: Weep For The Damned I also wrote this poem while sitting in a class at BYU. \u00a0It seems I did a lot of that in 1998. \u00a0By my count, there are nine poems that I wrote either during class or for a class assignment, or were at least written down in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}