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“Bollywood star Parveen Babi dies . . . As her film career waned Babi made few public appearances and lived in virtual seclusion. “ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4198219.stm Shades of Ono no Komachi |
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Sunshine
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John, what does this have to do with a poetry challenge? |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
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I'm wondering the same thing Kari. and i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you |
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In Japan there is a tradition of plays, poems, etc. around Ono no Komachi on the theme of the once beautiful and famous woman who wanes into neglected old age and obscurity. The most ready example I can think of in American poetry is Frost: “The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag, Was once the beauty Abishag,”* though I am sure there are others, (an English example, Walter De La Mare: “The Song of the Secret Where is beauty? Gone, gone: The cold winds have taken it With their faint moan; The white stars have shaken it, Trembling down,”) It’s a universal theme, and one that can be treated as creates a sad sensitive beauty. That’s the challenge. *On a coarser note, this is pretty much how Linda Lovelace of porno fame ended up. |
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Sunshine
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That helps. Thanks! |
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An American version: http://www.outlawwomen.com/BabyDoeMcCourt.htm |
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