{"id":3592,"date":"2021-04-21T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2021-04-22T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T08:55:05","slug":"school-of-english-finalist-martha-grogan-writes-sonnet-for-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/04\/21\/school-of-english-finalist-martha-grogan-writes-sonnet-for-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"School of English finalist, Martha Grogan, writes sonnet for Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Martha, who is in her final year of her English Literature and Creative Writing degree, has written a sonnet celebrating Earth Day 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A Sonnet For Earth Day 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Anarchy\u2019s blood runs a rainbow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And today we celebrate green.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Internet protests, where the resolution is low<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With a revolution high on a pixelated screen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Masked, take to the streets, raise your fist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And with plagued and polluted lungs yell,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe can\u2019t breathe!\u201d Rebel and resist,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Before corporations poison the earth into hell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>As habitats are destroyed and the animals evacuate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To cooler poles, spreading more viruses and disease,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Announcing more epidemics that devastate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The already corrupted soil and adulterated seas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The revolution will not be scheduled on a Zoom&#x2122; call,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And will require the participations of us all.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha, who is in her final year of her English Literature and Creative Writing degree, has written a sonnet celebrating Earth Day 2021. A Sonnet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/04\/21\/school-of-english-finalist-martha-grogan-writes-sonnet-for-earth-day\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74034,"featured_media":3594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,178752,124,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}