{"id":1373,"date":"2017-08-18T13:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2017-08-19T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T15:10:10","slug":"1373-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/1373-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushkin’s ‘The Bronze Horseman’."},"content":{"rendered":"

And all of a sudden, just like that, I started to hate statues. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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‘The Bronze Horseman’ (ending) by Aleksandir Pushkin, ca. 1833<\/p>\n

The poor madman circled around
\nThe foot of the black statue’s mass,
\nHe gazed into the brazen face
\nOf the half-planet’s ruler, proud.
\nAnd was his breast oppressed. He laid
\nOn the cold barrier his forehead.
\nHis eyes were veiled with a mist-cover,
\nHis heart was all caught with a flame,
\nHis blood seethed. Gloomy he became
\nBefore the idol, looming over,
\nAnd, having clenched his teeth and fist,
\nAs if possessed by evil powers,
\n“Well, builder-maker of the marvels,”
\nHe whispered, trembling in a fit,
\n“You only wait!…”- And to a street,
\nAt once he started to run out –
\nHe fancied: that the great tsar’s face,
\nWith a wrath suddenly embraced,
\nWas turning slowly around…
\nAnd strait along the empty square
\nHe runs and hears as if there were,
\nJust behind him, the peals of thunder,
\nOf the hard-ringing hoofs’ reminders, –
\nA race the empty square across,
\nUpon the pavement, fiercely tossed;
\nAnd by the moon, that palled lighter,
\nHaving stretched his hand over roofs,
\nThe Bronze Horseman rides him after –
\nOn his steed of the ringing hoofs.
\nAnd all the night the madman, poor,
\nWhere’er he might direct his steps,
\nAfter him the Bronze Horseman
\nKeeps on the heavy-treading race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And all of a sudden, just like that, I started to hate statues. ‘The Bronze Horseman’ (ending) by Aleksandir Pushkin, ca. 1833 The poor madman circled around The foot of the black statue’s mass, He gazed into the brazen face Of the half-planet’s ruler, proud. And was his breast oppressed. He laid On the cold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}