{"id":4833,"date":"2023-09-14T19:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T02:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2023-09-14T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T02:09:12","slug":"brechts-afterwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/brechts-afterwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Brecht&#8217;s Afterwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Afterwards, I strode alone<br \/>\ninto the full light of day<br \/>\nand saw, with eyes of my own,<br \/>\nthe sheer joy of those at play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">About that secret hour,<br \/>\nknow only that within<br \/>\nI feel a new-born power,<br \/>\nbeauty in lip and limb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Greener, the trees and meadows,<br \/>\nmore fragrant the flower,<br \/>\nfresher the water which flows<br \/>\ndown my skin as I shower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>After Bertolt Brecht<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Als ich nachher von dir ging<br \/>\n<\/em><em>An dem gro\u00dfen Heute<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Sah ich, als ich sehn anfing<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Lauter lustige Leute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Und seit jener Abendstund<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wei\u00dft schon, die ich meine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hab ich einen sch\u00f6nern Mund.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Und geschicktere Beine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gr\u00fcner ist, seit ich so f\u00fchl<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Baum und Strauch und Wiese<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Und das Wasser sch\u00f6ner k\u00fchl<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wenn ich\u2019s auf mich gie\u00dfe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Brecht, usually cast in some proletarian drama, was a surprisingly vital poet, unafraid to display emotion, as here.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>I&#8217;ll leave it to readers to imagine what &#8220;Afterward&#8221; comes after, since the filling in of back stories is what readers are supposed to do anyways<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Afterwards, I strode alone into the full light of day and saw, with eyes of my own, the sheer joy of those at play. About that secret hour, know only that within I feel a new-born power, beauty in lip and limb. Greener, the trees and meadows, more fragrant the flower, fresher the water which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/brechts-afterwards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brecht&#8217;s Afterwards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- 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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}