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“Rubens’ Women” by Wislawa Szymborska
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5 responses to ““Rubens’ Women” by Wislawa Szymborska”
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A listener in Alaska wrote:
Hi Sher, thanks for the Symborska poems. She’s one of my favorites, and thanks for the Darkling Thrush, which every year reminds us that people have always been feeling the historic dread we are feeling now: the worst of humanity creeping out like lice from between the feathers of the wings of progress.LikeLike
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Hello and thank you for your comments. Each December I view “The Darkling Thrush” a bit different in its relevance to the passing year. Seems more and more timely I agree. Perhaps next year…?
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A listener on the Oregon Coast:
When younger, looking through the paintings of masters, I wondered at the selection of models, and the floating chubby cherubs. Wislawa well portrays the arbitrary male preferences through centuries past.LikeLike
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Hello and thank you for your comments. Yes, much of classical art is from the male perspective or the view from the male eye’s preference. I enjoyed Symborska’s clever commentary about how what is considered beautiful from the male point of view differs based on the century the male lived in. I recall being plump when I was 30 and wishing it was the 17th century then I would be considered perfect. How pressed we are by our culture!
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