{"id":502,"date":"2013-07-06T00:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=502"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:25:34","slug":"pathetic-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/pathetic-fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathetic Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"702\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-616\" alt=\"Pathetic Fallacy illustration\" src=\"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-018.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-018.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-018-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><br \/>\nDry grasses have weathered;<br \/>\nbeneath the rain&#8217;s autumn knell<br \/>\nmildew creeps under rotting wood.<\/p>\n<p>Over the darkening grass, I imagine<br \/>\nthe dank abode of man, fixed<br \/>\nto the flesh, married like a snail<br \/>\nwith the skin.<br \/>\nClods of turf, distant cries<br \/>\nfrom the primeval soil,<br \/>\nroot him to the scorched earth.<br \/>\nHe cannot see nor feel &#8211;<br \/>\nhe is a prisoner, subject to<br \/>\nfive indelible wits.<br \/>\nAbove him, the heavens maintain<br \/>\na dispassionate vigil;<br \/>\nthe moon is its slave,<br \/>\nstraddling the unquiet night.<\/p>\n<p>His body hangs in reverence &#8211;<br \/>\nan oblation to mysteries;<br \/>\nI see him imitate the ethereal stars,<br \/>\nhis smile is perfection.<\/p>\n<p>Notes.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic Fallacy &#8211; a term used by the Victorian art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) to describe the elevated state of individuals when emotionally affected by natural landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry grasses have weathered; beneath the rain&#8217;s autumn knell mildew creeps under rotting wood. Over the darkening grass, I imagine the dank abode of man, fixed to the flesh, married like a snail with the skin. Clods of turf, distant cries from the primeval soil, root him to the scorched earth. He cannot see nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}