{"id":211,"date":"2016-06-27T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/?p=211"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:25:05","slug":"gilgamesh-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/gilgamesh-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgamesh: Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vert vert-0\" data-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@html+block@66e2cb598eec4887bf4a72797709d596\">\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=\"8399feae3c7a11e6b2cd0a618516158d\" data-runtime-version=\"1\" data-usage-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@html+block@66e2cb598eec4887bf4a72797709d596\" data-type=\"HTMLModule\" data-course-id=\"course-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016\">\n<p>How can conviction or command be inviting in a poem? What does poetic confidence look like on the level of lines and images? Sometimes the moments that might seem discursive in a great poem actually display focus and authority\u2014knowing something belongs in the poem, that it&#8217;s part of the poem&#8217;s imaginative world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vert vert-1\" data-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@video+block@dd83fe3d055e452c91c50dd54785e067\">\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=\"8399feae3c7a11e6b2cd0a618516158d\" data-runtime-version=\"1\" data-usage-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@video+block@dd83fe3d055e452c91c50dd54785e067\" data-type=\"Video\" data-course-id=\"course-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can conviction or command be inviting in a poem? What does poetic confidence look like on the level of lines and images? Sometimes the moments that might seem discursive in a great poem actually display focus and authority\u2014knowing something belongs in the poem, that it&#8217;s part of the poem&#8217;s imaginative world.<\/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\/211"}],"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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}