The Poetry of Dress..................
whether poetry has gone out of dress,or dress has gone out of poetry,is a moot point.We still come across symbols of feminine pulchritude,but ,alas no longer such beauty in poetry ....
The other day it was it was a London school, banning skirts,now it is an appeal by the Shanghai Metro asking female passengers to dress up in a "dignified" manner. It says "scantily clad women attract molesters" .Is it asking for too much ... Attract poets and inspire poetry rather than molesters.
Flowing gowns ,long skirts, tastefully wrapped saries make more lasting impression( even on the MCP). Let us try and revive the extinct tribe of the Romantic poets.Leave nudity to the painter's niche. In the era of software ,skinware is not all about feminity.Or did TS Elliot,make heart only an object of angioplasty by comparing its throbbing to a early London taxi.
"My heart is throbbing like a taxi parked" ...ofcourse with the engine running.
whether poetry has gone out of dress,or dress has gone out of poetry,is a moot point.We still come across symbols of feminine pulchritude,but ,alas no longer such beauty in poetry ....
" Whenas in silk my Julia goes, Then then me thinks how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next ,when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; O how that glittering taketh me! " R Herrick.It is obviously not about some scanty apparel.It is the gorgeous silk gown,so full of life,so vibrant.so full blown.The undulating movement of the the materiel so grandly depicted in so pedantic a word as" liquefaction " and "Whenas".Ample dress gracefully adorned modestly paraded inspires such beautiful poetry.
The other day it was it was a London school, banning skirts,now it is an appeal by the Shanghai Metro asking female passengers to dress up in a "dignified" manner. It says "scantily clad women attract molesters" .Is it asking for too much ... Attract poets and inspire poetry rather than molesters.
Flowing gowns ,long skirts, tastefully wrapped saries make more lasting impression( even on the MCP). Let us try and revive the extinct tribe of the Romantic poets.Leave nudity to the painter's niche. In the era of software ,skinware is not all about feminity.Or did TS Elliot,make heart only an object of angioplasty by comparing its throbbing to a early London taxi.
"My heart is throbbing like a taxi parked" ...ofcourse with the engine running.
Let us regress occasionally
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