{"id":109768,"date":"2009-12-21T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:04:36","slug":"do-the-gute-a-few-good-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109768","title":{"rendered":"Do the Gute: A Few Good Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this morning I thought of this stirring poem by Robert Browning: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/246\/644.html\">How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix<\/a>. It&#8217;s an old favorite. I read a lot of Robert Browning in high school, and if that surprises you, it is because you aren&#8217;t familiar with Robert Browning, who is <i>way<\/i> different from his wife. Both are great poets, but Elizabeth Barrett wrote sentimental sonnets (e.g., &#8220;How do I love thee? Let me count the ways&#8221;) and Robert wrote tough-nosed narratives poems, stories that were often thrilling and as often grotesque. Poetry for teenaged boys, you might say. <\/p>\n<p>This is one of his most famous poems, and is simply about three men on a furious horseback ride. We never know what the good news is, or why it is so urgent. It doesn&#8217;t really matter. There is no historical incident that inspired it, Browning said. It&#8217;s just a poem that occurred to him. It&#8217;s not about the men and their good news. It&#8217;s about the ride, and the heroes are the horses.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is incredible for the way it maintains the same urgent, desperate pace as the horses. It&#8217;s a master class on poetics. Enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this morning I thought of this stirring poem by Robert Browning: How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix. It&#8217;s an old favorite. I read a lot of Robert Browning in high school, and if that surprises you, it is because you aren&#8217;t familiar with Robert Browning, who is way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}