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Squirrel dosing on calcium

Squirrel dosing on calcium


Postby tweedledog » Fri Jul 23, 2021 2:46 pm

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Et in Arcadia Ego.
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Re: Squirrel dosing on calcium

Postby CharlesT » Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:30 pm

That'll last it a few lifetimes.

"The farmer’s children
Tiptoe past the shed
Where the gelding knife is kept."
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Re: Squirrel dosing on calcium

Postby tweedledog » Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:57 pm

Nice one Charles. I had been thinking of the paintings, but, of course, the poem is equally germane. Auden had the paintings in mind did he not? I can't remember (as so often in my ancientness :wink:).
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Re: Squirrel dosing on calcium

Postby CharlesT » Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:56 pm

Auden used the theme of the paintings, the ultimate inevitable loss of an idyllic Arcadian existence, to muse on the loss or domestication of nature, the final verse referencing emasculation by domesticity. It's a fine poem.

Showing my age, I can recall Auden being interviewed on television, possibly late '60's, looking like an ancient tortoise.
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