{"id":146,"date":"2025-02-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/?p=146"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:38:53","slug":"sonnet-i-the-open-island-by-adam-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet I: The Open Island by Adam Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally published 03\/02\/2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Content Warning:<\/strong> Disturbing Imagery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-secondary-bg-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-secondary-bg-color-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sonnet I: The Open Island<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Adam Barrett<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the pain of one but not the other<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A skinned dog but not the starving mother<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tortured animal but not the child<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruined lands by us always seen so mild<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They starve them, kill them, care less for our world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We shoot them, bomb them, a Union unfurled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Done in justice, planting rage in their home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Theirs done in greed, from a culture syndrome<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fear not the boat upon the &#8220;English&#8221; shore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The war-stricken sailors seek nothing more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Than a life for their children free from harm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kept afloat by dreams of safety and calm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ours is privilege, a life without fear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So stand up, reach out, to those coming here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-secondary-bg-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-secondary-bg-color-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About this piece<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam Barrett is a Literature MA student who hasn&#8217;t done anything like this before with poetry. It&#8217;s a &#8216;modern&#8217; take on a sonnet. It&#8217;s a comparison of the Western empathetic responses to the treatment of animals in other parts of the world, like with dog festivals, and the lack of empathy towards refugees who also fight for their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-secondary-bg-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-secondary-bg-color-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the pain of one but not the other<\/p>\n<p>A skinned dog but not the starving mother<\/p>\n<p>A tortured animal but not the child<\/p>\n<p>Ruined lands by us always seen so mild<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/onedgecreativearts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}