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Girl Powdering Her NeckSong is describing a print of a scene where a woman is putting on makeup and grooming herself. The fact that he is looking at a picture is important because it is a moment frozen in time. The poem...
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Girl Powdering Her NeckTo me, this is a poem about what women have traditionally been compelled to do for men -- how they have been pushed to make themselves into what men want and how this forces them to submerge their...
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Girl Powdering Her NeckRead the last three lines of Cathy Song's poem "Girl Powdering her Neck," What is she trying to say?In this poem, there is a girl who is preparing herself for her day. The last three lines that you are asking about illustrate her looking in the mirror of a pond, as illustrated in these lines:...
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Girl Powdering Her NeckLiterally speaking, the young woman in the poem is transforming herself into a courtesan, a woman who is, to some degree, selling her body. In the Japan of these times, there were women who were...
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Girl Powdering Her Neck"Girl Powdering Her Neck" 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,...
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Girl Powdering Her NeckAlthough 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...
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Girl Powdering Her NeckThis is a very interesting question to apply to this poem, as it is possible to read the author's attitude to the beautiful scene she is describing as being profoundly ambivalent. Personally, I see...