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        <title><![CDATA[Although there are references to winter in the poem, there seems to be a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although there are references to winter in the poem, there seems to be a more prevailing and significant motif, that of nature itself. Elements of the natural world outside the girl's room are present in the poem's references to an oyster shell, the buckwheat pillow, seaweed on rocks, pollen, maple leaves, a snowy hill, white birds, a pond in winter, a "plum face," lips stained by berries, chrysanthemums, and a lake. All of these bring vivid...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Girl Powdering Her Neck," is the season, especially winter, implied...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Girl Powdering Her Neck," is the season, especially winter, implied in the poem?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;Girl Powdering Her Neck&quot; is first a description: these are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;Girl Powdering Her Neck&quot; is first a description: these are the details of how a woman—specifically, a Japanese woman of a specific period— prepares herself for the day. After that, it is a commentary on several things. It comments on the artificiality of it all; look, it is saying, at the work that's involved, the artifice involved in presenting a specific appearance. It draws a parallel between the kind of self-scrutiny...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Could you summarize the &quot;Girl Powdering Her Neck&quot;?]]></title>
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