{"id":73,"date":"2006-10-06T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T07:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-08-23T22:31:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T04:31:44","slug":"poetism-commentary-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/06\/poetism-commentary-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetism Commentary: &quot;Illusion&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poem in question: <a href=\"\/pp\/illusion\/\">Illusion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ugh, is this poem bad.  I know that a good number of my poems aren&#8217;t masterpieces, but I have never really liked this one, even after the revisionism it went through to get to the form it is in now.  Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have the original to compare it with.  It would be nice to see how crappy it was at the outset.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this poem is about the devil&#8217;s path and all that, a common theme  from this era of my poetry, as you may have (read: probably have not) read thus far in the blog.<\/p>\n<p>In the first stanza, someone has decided to try and lead other people astray, but doesn&#8217;t know how.  Part of him believes what he is preaching, but for some reason he has a hard time pressing the beliefs on others.<\/p>\n<p>The other guy doesn&#8217;t believe the lies, and knows they are lies, but he&#8217;s in marketing, just doing his job.  That&#8217;s why he wins, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>And there is the lame commentary for the lame poem.  I&#8217;m sure I could write something more insightful about it and try to explore its themes more (I do think there is a valid theme, I just think it&#8217;s ineptly expressed, and easy to understand, anyway), but my parenthetical comment just explained why I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>However, this poem does remind me of a forum I&#8217;ve perused over the past couple of days.  For the sake of keeping these commentaries focused more on the actual commentary, though, the story will get its own blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem in question: Illusion Ugh, is this poem bad. I know that a good number of my poems aren&#8217;t masterpieces, but I have never really liked this one, even after the revisionism it went through to get to the form it is in now. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have the original to compare it with. [&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\/73"}],"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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}