{"id":807,"date":"2011-01-06T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=807"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:29:58","slug":"conversation-galante-by-t-s-eliot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/conversation-galante-by-t-s-eliot\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tsesig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-721 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"Tsesig\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Tsesig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"124\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 459px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 459\/124;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conversation Galante<\/p>\n<p>by T. S. Eliot<\/p>\n<p>I observe: \u201cOur sentimental friend the moon!<br \/>\nOr possibly (fantastic, I confess)<br \/>\nIt may be Prester John\u2019s balloon<br \/>\nOr an old battered lantern hung aloft<br \/>\nTo light poor travellers to their distress.\u201d<br \/>\nShe then: \u201cHow you digress!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I then: \u201cSome one frames upon the keys<br \/>\nThat exquisite nocturne, with which we explain<br \/>\nThe night and moonshine; music which we seize<br \/>\nTo body forth our own vacuity.\u201d<br \/>\nShe then: \u201cDoes this refer to me?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOh no, it is I who am inane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou, madam, are the eternal humorist,<br \/>\nThe eternal enemy of the absolute,<br \/>\nGiving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!<br \/>\nWith your aid indifferent and imperious<br \/>\nAt a stroke our mad poetics to confute\u2014&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd\u2014\u201cAre we then so serious?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot I observe: \u201cOur sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John\u2019s balloon Or an old battered lantern hung aloft To light poor travellers to their distress.\u201d She then: \u201cHow you digress!\u201d And I then: \u201cSome one frames upon the keys That exquisite nocturne,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,103,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-eliot","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}