Monday, January 27, 2014

Proud And Beautiful Comments

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AFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins will take for fixing you over into a thing the people on the streets call proud and beautiful,
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Carl Sandburg
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B. King 31 October 2019

My interpretation is that the poem is about misdirected ambition. Once selfishly achieved at the expense of others' talents and sacrifice, the goal is ultimately shown to be worthless. There is no natural beauty and certainly no personal achievement of which to be proud. It has been a shallow and pointless exercise. All is vanity.

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