{"id":156,"date":"2020-03-24T04:47:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/chapter\/poem-to-e-t\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:13:12","slug":"poem-to-e-t","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/chapter\/poem-to-e-t\/","title":{"raw":"Poem: To E. T.","rendered":"Poem: To E. T."},"content":{"raw":"<strong>To E.T.\n<\/strong><strong>Author:&nbsp;<\/strong>Robert Frost\n\u00a9 1920\n\nI slumbered with your poems on my breast\nSpread open as I dropped them half-read through\nLike dove wings on a figure on a tomb\nTo see, if in a dream they brought of you,\n\nI might not have the chance I missed in life\nThrough some delay, and call you to your face\nFirst soldier, and then poet, and then both,\nWho died a soldier-poet of your race.\n\nI meant, you meant, that nothing should remain\nUnsaid between us, brother, and this remained\u2014\nAnd one thing more that was not then to say:\nThe Victory for what it lost and gained.\n\nYou went to meet the shell\u2019s embrace of fire\nOn Vimy Ridge; and when you fell that day\nThe war seemed over more for you than me,\nBut now for me than you\u2014the other way.\n\nHow over, though, for even me who knew\nThe foe thrust back unsafe beyond the Rhine,\nIf I was not to speak of it to you\nAnd see you please once more with words of mine?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Note<\/strong>: E.T. refers to the poet Edward Thomas.","rendered":"<p><strong>To E.T.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Author:&nbsp;<\/strong>Robert Frost<br \/>\n\u00a9 1920<\/p>\n<p>I slumbered with your poems on my breast<br \/>\nSpread open as I dropped them half-read through<br \/>\nLike dove wings on a figure on a tomb<br \/>\nTo see, if in a dream they brought of you,<\/p>\n<p>I might not have the chance I missed in life<br \/>\nThrough some delay, and call you to your face<br \/>\nFirst soldier, and then poet, and then both,<br \/>\nWho died a soldier-poet of your race.<\/p>\n<p>I meant, you meant, that nothing should remain<br \/>\nUnsaid between us, brother, and this remained\u2014<br \/>\nAnd one thing more that was not then to say:<br \/>\nThe Victory for what it lost and gained.<\/p>\n<p>You went to meet the shell\u2019s embrace of fire<br \/>\nOn Vimy Ridge; and when you fell that day<br \/>\nThe war seemed over more for you than me,<br \/>\nBut now for me than you\u2014the other way.<\/p>\n<p>How over, though, for even me who knew<br \/>\nThe foe thrust back unsafe beyond the Rhine,<br \/>\nIf I was not to speak of it to you<br \/>\nAnd see you please once more with words of mine?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: E.T. refers to the poet Edward Thomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"menu_order":35,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-156","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/85"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/156\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}