{"id":2778,"date":"2012-11-23T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T00:33:21","slug":"view-of-a-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/view-of-a-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"View Of A Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was written by the late Ted Hughes, most famous, I think, for being the husband of Sylvia Plath:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JBuKl6z22So\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pig lay on a barrow dead.<br \/>\nIt weighed, they said, as much as three men.<br \/>\nIts eyes closed, pink white eyelashes.<br \/>\nIts trotters stuck straight out.<\/p>\n<p>Such weight and thick pink bulk<br \/>\nSet in death seemed not just dead.<br \/>\nIt was less than lifeless, further off.<br \/>\nIt was like a sack of wheat.<\/p>\n<p>I thumped it without feeling remorse.<br \/>\nOne feels guilty insulting the dead,<br \/>\nWalking on graves. But this pig<br \/>\nDid not seem able to accuse.<\/p>\n<p>It was too dead. Just so much<br \/>\nA poundage of lard and pork.<br \/>\nIts last dignity had entirely gone.<br \/>\nIt was not a figure of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Too dead now to pity.<br \/>\nTo remember its life, din, stronghold<br \/>\nOf earthly pleasure as it had been,<br \/>\nSeemed a false effort, and off the point.<\/p>\n<p>Too deadly factual. Its weight<br \/>\nOppressed me\u2014how could it be moved?<br \/>\nAnd the trouble of cutting it up!<br \/>\nThe gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Once I ran at a fair in the noise<br \/>\nTo catch a greased piglet<br \/>\nThat was faster and nimbler than a cat,<br \/>\nIts squeal was the rending of metal.<\/p>\n<p>Pigs must have hot blood, they feel like ovens.<br \/>\nTheir bite is worse than a horse\u2019s\u2014<br \/>\nThey chop a half-moon clean out.<br \/>\nThey eat cinders, dead cats.<\/p>\n<p>Distinctions and admirations such<br \/>\nAs this one was long finished with.<br \/>\nI stared at it a long time. They were going to scald it,<br \/>\nScald it and scour it like a doorstep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written by the late Ted Hughes, most famous, I think, for being the husband of Sylvia Plath: The pig lay on a barrow dead. It weighed, they said, as much as three men. Its eyes closed, pink white eyelashes. Its trotters stuck straight out. Such weight and thick pink bulk Set in death &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/view-of-a-pig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;View Of A Pig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1209],"tags":[2194,2195,2196,2193,2192],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}