{"id":77,"date":"2006-10-22T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=77"},"modified":"2006-10-22T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T02:39:00","slug":"jar-jar-agonistes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Jar Jar Agonistes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Jar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Jar Jar Agonistes (2006) <\/em><\/p>\n

Gollum<\/a> is way better.
I evoke birthday blight and snakes
to haul home. I stoke vitriol
and hollow men<\/a> to guess the price<\/p>\n

of my money pit<\/a>. Sad to be
pitied more than Lieberman<\/a> or
other juggling carpetbaggers. I seem
a nasty senator, a recycling<\/p>\n

smattering of acting<\/a> and idiot
clowning<\/a>. Executable. Embedded
face down in a chemical treatment plant
to erase all screentime tribulation.<\/p>\n

Decline the first glass coffin.
Meesa never asked to be born
or a racist Barney<\/a>. I’m a rubber schema
and uncomfortable comic<\/a> relief.<\/p>\n

I must be expunged from all prints.
Even my death<\/a> will annoy you. <\/p>\n

~\/~<\/p>\n

This is a “Google poem” — a found text<\/a> compiled by bits of search phrase strings from Google searches of agonistes<\/em> and jar jar<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> explains the term:<\/p>\n

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The word Agonistes<\/b>, found as an epithet following a person’s name, means “the struggler” or “the combatant.” It is most often an allusion to John Milton<\/a>‘s 1671 verse tragedy Samson<\/a> Agonistes<\/em>, which recounts the end of Samson’s life, when he is a blind captive of the Philistines (famous line: “Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves”). The struggle that “Samson Agonistes” centers upon is the effort of Samson to renew his faith in God’s support.<\/p>\n

Probably the most famous post-Miltonic use of Agonistes<\/a> is by T.S. Eliot<\/a>, who titled one of his dramas Sweeney Agonistes<\/em>, where Sweeney, who appeared in several of Eliot’s poems, represents the materialistic and shallow modern man. Another well-known example is Garry Wills’ 1969 political book Nixon Agonistes<\/a><\/i>, discussing embattled president Richard Nixon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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