{"id":125,"date":"2016-06-24T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/?p=125"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:35:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:35:38","slug":"formal-and-pretentious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/formal-and-pretentious\/","title":{"rendered":"Formal and Pretentious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vert vert-0\" data-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@html+block@30ec74a250ac4197a2f9526932bc9697\">\n<div class=\"xblock xblock-student_view xblock-student_view-html xmodule_display xmodule_HtmlModule xblock-initialized\" data-runtime-class=\"LmsRuntime\" data-init=\"XBlockToXModuleShim\" data-block-type=\"html\" data-request-token=\"aa0a74c23c8111e6a5550a618516158d\" data-runtime-version=\"1\" data-usage-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@html+block@30ec74a250ac4197a2f9526932bc9697\" data-type=\"HTMLModule\" data-course-id=\"course-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016\">\n<p>A lot of good writing and thinking about poetry has sought to define what is special or unique about poetry: ways that the language of a poem is different from other kinds of discourse. The video discussions in this section, to some extent, take a different, also useful direction: considering ways that poetry is continuous with other kinds of discourse. Terms like \u201cpretension\u201d and \u201cauthenticity\u201d can apply to a\u00a0 conversation, a speech, a lecture, a sermon . . . and, to a poem?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vert vert-1\" data-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@video+block@451e570d414b4a35ba885a52f97f98aa\">\n<div class=\"xblock xblock-student_view xblock-student_view-video xmodule_display xmodule_VideoModule xblock-initialized\" data-runtime-class=\"LmsRuntime\" data-init=\"XBlockToXModuleShim\" data-block-type=\"video\" data-request-token=\"aa0a74c23c8111e6a5550a618516158d\" data-runtime-version=\"1\" data-usage-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@video+block@451e570d414b4a35ba885a52f97f98aa\" data-type=\"Video\" data-course-id=\"course-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of good writing and thinking about poetry has sought to define what is special or unique about poetry: ways that the language of a poem is different from other kinds of discourse. The video discussions in this section, to some extent, take a different, also useful direction: considering ways that poetry is continuous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}