Today I was looking at some natural marble and I thought about how its amazingly beautiful pattern was formed by extreme and violent forces.<\/p>\n
I was reminded of Wordsworth’s description of poetry as “emotion recollected in tranquility.”<\/p>\n
I said this to the person next to me, and he replied “Yes, it’s the poetry of the earth.”<\/p>\n
Which then reminded me of what Keats said in one of his poems: “The poetry of Earth is never dead.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I was looking at some natural marble and I thought about how its amazingly beautiful pattern was formed by extreme and violent forces. I was reminded of Wordsworth’s description of poetry as “emotion recollected in tranquility.” I said this to the person next to me, and he replied “Yes, it’s the poetry of the … Continue reading “Poetry of Earth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25819,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions\/25819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}