{"id":606,"date":"2016-09-28T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/?page_id=606"},"modified":"2016-10-31T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:16:59","slug":"end-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/end-of-the-century\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Century, 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>End of the century, 1984<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eileen O\u2019Shaughnessey<\/p>\n<p>Death<\/p>\n<p>Synthetic winds have blown away<br \/>\nMaterial dust, but this one room<br \/>\nRebukes the constant violet ray<br \/>\nAnd dustless sheds a dusty gloom.<br \/>\nWrecked on the outmoded past<br \/>\nLie North and Hillard, Virgil, Horace,<br \/>\nShakespeare&#8217;s bones are quiet at last,<br \/>\nDead as Yeats or William Morris.<br \/>\nHave not the inmates earned their rest?<br \/>\nA hundred circles traversed they<br \/>\nComplaining of the classic quest<br \/>\nAnd, each inevitable day,<br \/>\nIllogically trying to place<br \/>\nA ball within an empty space.<\/p>\n<p>Birth<\/p>\n<p>Every loss is now a gain<br \/>\nFor every chance must follow reason.<br \/>\nA crystal palace meets the rain<br \/>\nThat falls at its appointed season.<br \/>\nNo book disturbs the lucid line<br \/>\nFor sun-bronzed scholars tune their thought<br \/>\nTo Telepathic Station 9<br \/>\nFrom which they know just what they ought:<br \/>\nThe useful sciences; the arts<br \/>\nOf telesalesmanship and Spanish<br \/>\nAs registered in Western parts;<br \/>\nMental cremation that shall banish<br \/>\nRelics, philosophies and colds &#8212;<br \/>\nManana-minded ten-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix<\/p>\n<p>Worlds have died that they may live,<br \/>\nMay plume again their fairest feathers<br \/>\nAnd in their clearest songs may give<br \/>\nWelcome to all spontaneous weathers.<br \/>\nBacon&#8217;s colleague is called Einstein,<br \/>\nHuxley shares Platonic food,<br \/>\nViolet rays are only sunshine<br \/>\nChristened in the modern mood,<br \/>\nIn this house if in no other<br \/>\nPast and future may agree,<br \/>\nEach herself, but each the other<br \/>\nIn a curious harmony,<br \/>\nFinding both a proper place<br \/>\nIn the silken gown&#8217;s embrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of the century, 1984 Eileen O\u2019Shaughnessey Death Synthetic winds have blown away Material dust, but this one room Rebukes the constant violet ray And dustless sheds a dusty gloom. Wrecked on the outmoded past Lie North and Hillard, Virgil, Horace, Shakespeare&#8217;s bones are quiet at last, Dead as Yeats or William Morris. Have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-606","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}