{"id":1275,"date":"2016-06-20T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2024-04-18T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:55:04","slug":"alexander-pushkin-exegi-monumentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1275\/poems\/alexander-pushkin-exegi-monumentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Pushkin: Exegi Monumentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have erected a monument to myself<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Not built by hands; the track of it, though trodden<br \/>\nBy the people, shall not become overgrown,<br \/>\nAnd it stands higher than Alexander&#8217;s column.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I shall not wholly die. In my sacred lyre<br \/>\nMy soul shall outlive my dust and escape corruption \u2014<br \/>\nAnd I shall be famed so long as underneath<br \/>\nThe moon a single poet remains alive.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be noised abroad through all great Russia,<br \/>\nHer innumerable tongues shall speak my name:<br \/>\nThe tongue of the Slavs&#8217; proud grandson, the Finn, and now<br \/>\nThe wild Tungus and Kalmyk, the steppes&#8217; friend.<\/p>\n<p>In centuries to come I shall be loved by the people<br \/>\nFor having awakened noble thoughts with my lyre,<br \/>\nFor having glorified freedom in my harsh age<br \/>\nAnd called for mercy towards the fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Be attentive, Muse, to the commandments of God;<br \/>\nFearing no insult, asking for no crown,<br \/>\nReceive with indifference both flattery and slander,<br \/>\nAnd do not argue with a fool.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Translated by Donald Michael Thomas,&nbsp;<\/em>from <i>The Bronze Horseman: Selected Poems of Alexander Pushkin<\/i>&nbsp;(1982).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have erected a monument to myself Not built by hands; the track of it, though trodden By the people, shall not become overgrown, And it stands higher than Alexander&#8217;s column.&nbsp; I shall not wholly die. In my sacred lyre My soul shall outlive my dust and escape corruption \u2014 And I shall be famed <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1275\/poems\/alexander-pushkin-exegi-monumentum\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-it-is-all-but-vanity","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}