{"id":3552,"date":"2017-06-03T09:13:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2017-06-03T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T08:13:54","slug":"silent-upon-a-peak-in-darien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"Silent upon a peak in Darien"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well I know it’s not Darien – it’s the little hill at St Catherine’s Dub at Collieston.\u00a0 But these words from\u00a0John\u00a0Keats’ poem, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer<\/em> came to my mind when I looked at this picture.\u00a0\u00a0 Poppy is unusually still, staring out to sea ‘like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes\u00a0 he star\u2019d at the Pacific’.<\/p>\n

When I try to pose Poppy in a picture she will often choose to look to the side rather than straight to camera. If I call to her, she will move towards me away from the carefully placed position I have chosen for the picture.\u00a0\u00a0 And getting two dogs to look at me at the same time…..well more work needed I think.<\/p>\n

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On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
\n<\/strong>By John Keats<\/p>\n

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
\nAnd many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
\nRound many western islands have I been
\nWhich bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
\nOft of one wide expanse had I been told
\nThat deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;
\nYet did I never breathe its pure serene
\nTill I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
\nThen felt I like some watcher of the skies
\nWhen a new planet swims into his ken;
\nOr like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
\nHe star’d at the Pacific\u2014and all his men
\nLook’d at each other with a wild surmise\u2014
\nSilent, upon a peak in Darien.<\/p>\n

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Well I know it’s not Darien – it’s the little hill at St Catherine’s Dub at Collieston.\u00a0 But these words from\u00a0John\u00a0Keats’ poem, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer came to my mind when I looked at this picture.\u00a0\u00a0 Poppy is unusually still, staring out to sea ‘like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes\u00a0 he star\u2019d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}