{"id":9667,"date":"2020-12-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2020-12-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T06:00:00","slug":"symbolic-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/symbolic-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbolic Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83016689\/1912-12-10\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\">The Detroit Times, December 10, 1912<\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n Symbolic dances are the fad\n \u00a0 \u00a0 On many hundred stages;\n We see the dancers, thinly clad,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 All sorts and kinds and ages.\n With filmy draperies that cling\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And weird, uncanny motions,\n They symbolize such things as spring\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And passions and emotions.\n \n They dance a poem writ by Poe\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With great poetic frenzy.\n Their lack of garments goes to show\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They scorn the influenzy;\n They\u2019ll dance a tragedy clear through\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With motions most symbolic\n Although they may appear to you\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As suffering from colic.\n \n In dances they\u2019ll portray the past,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The future and the present,\n And they\u2019ll present, with detail vast,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The poet and the peasant;\n They\u2019ll dance a painting or a play,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A novel, grim or merry,\n And in symbolic wise, some day,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They\u2019ll dance the dictionary!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Symbolic dances are the fad<br \/>\n     On many hundred stages;<br \/>\n We see the dancers, thinly clad,<br \/>\n     All sorts and kinds and ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-9667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}