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Refer to
"Buffalo Bill's"
Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show
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Buffalo Bill (left)
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"Buffalo Bill's
defunct...."
Why do you think
cummings writes "defunct," not "dead"?
Refer to "In
Just--"
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Sculptures
of Pan
Who was Pan and what
does he have to do with the "goat-footed baloon Man"?
Refer to
"Picasso"
Left: Three
Women. 1907. Center: Girl
with Mandolin. 1910. Right: Ma
Jolie (Woman with Guitar).
1911-12
What characteristics of Picasso's paintings
that cummings praises in his poem are evident in these paintings?
How do
the paintings illustrate Picasso's evolution as a cubist?
What attributes of Picasso's painting that
cummings praises do you find in cummings' poetry?
Refer to "Poem, or Beatuy Hurts Mr.
Vinal"
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"you, land of the Cluett
Shirt Boston Garter and
Spearmint
Girl with the Wrigley
Eyes (of you
land of the Arrow Ide
and Earl &
Wilson
Collars)"
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Cluett
shirt ad for Arrow Collars (1931), Wrigley's Doublemint Gum wrapper
(1918), disposable razor blades, B.V.D. ad (1933), Lydia E. Pinkham's
"Vegetable Compound" for treatment of "women's problems"
The Gilette ad reads in
part, "Science has reached the acme of skill in the fusion, hardening,
and sharpening of these blades. The process is one of the wonders of
the 20th century."
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"...land of Abraham
Lincoln and Lydia Pinkham,
...from every B.V.D.
let freedom ring.
...i would
suggest that certain
ideas gestures
rhymes, like Gillette
Razor Blades
...are
Not To Be Resharpened."
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Left: Arrow Shirts advertisement.
1920s. Right: Arrow Shirts advertisement. 1974.
What elemnts of these
two ads are similar? What do these elements "sell" in addition to the
shirt?
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