{"id":8435,"date":"2019-06-10T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=8435"},"modified":"2019-06-18T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T12:16:07","slug":"james-fenton-tiananmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/james-fenton-tiananmen","title":{"rendered":"James Fenton: Tiananmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8436 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2019\/06\/tiananmen_square_protests.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2019\/06\/tiananmen_square_protests.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2019\/06\/tiananmen_square_protests-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/>Tianamen<br \/>\nIs broad and clean<br \/>\nAnd you can\u2019t tell<br \/>\nWhere the dead have been<br \/>\nAnd you can\u2019t tell<br \/>\nWhat happened then<br \/>\nAnd you can\u2019t speak<br \/>\nOf Tianamen.<\/p>\n<p>You must not speak.<br \/>\nYou must not think.<br \/>\nYou must not dip<br \/>\nYour brush in ink.<br \/>\nYou must not say<br \/>\nWhat happened then,<br \/>\nWhat happened there.<br \/>\nWhat happened there<br \/>\nIn Tiananmen.<!--more-->The cruel men<br \/>\nAre old and deaf<br \/>\nReady to kill<br \/>\nBut short of breath<br \/>\nAnd they will die<br \/>\nLike other men<br \/>\nAnd they\u2019ll lie in state<br \/>\nIn Tianamen.<\/p>\n<p>They lie in state.<br \/>\nThey lie in style.<br \/>\nAnother lie\u2019s<br \/>\nThrown on the pile,<br \/>\nThrown on the pile<br \/>\nBy the cruel men<br \/>\nTo cleanse the blood<br \/>\nFrom Tianamen.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is a secret.<br \/>\nKeep it dark.<br \/>\nKeep it dark.<br \/>\nIn our heart of hearts.<br \/>\nKeep it dark<br \/>\nTill you know when<br \/>\nTruth may return<br \/>\nTo Tiananmen.<\/p>\n<p>Tiananmen<br \/>\nIs broad and clean<br \/>\nAnd you can\u2019t tell<br \/>\nWhere the dead have been<br \/>\nAnd you can\u2019t tell<br \/>\nWhen they\u2019ll come again.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll come again<br \/>\nTo Tiananmen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hong Kong, 15 June 1989<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>James Fenton, a British poet, wrote this poem in Hong Kong in 15 June 1989, a reaction to the massacre in Tiananmen Square the previous month. He included it in his collection Out of Danger, which then won the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tiananmen- By James Fenton\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qkdc3qIqHns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1a<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/puisipoesy.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/tianamen-by-james-fenton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/puisipoesy.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/tianamen-by-james-fenton.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tianamen Is broad and clean And you can\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/james-fenton-tiananmen\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2074,101],"views":1882,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8445,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions\/8445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}