« first day (4839 days earlier)      last day (30 days later) » 

Bookworm
Bookworm
12:16
0
Q: Why is the translation of cilicio as lash justified?

TsundokuThe penultimate stanza in Gabriela Mistral's poem Íntima goes as follows (emphasis mine): Porque mi amor no es sólo esta gavilla reacia y fatigada de mi cuerpo, que tiembla entera al roce del cilicio y que se me rezaga en todo vuelo. Ursula K. Le Guin translated this is follows (emphasis mine):...

poetry translation spanish-language ursula-le-guin gabriela-mistral
 
2 hours later…
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
14:04
@bobble We can share the task maybe. Apparently you and I are just the people to do that kind of thing :-)
Let's not start editing before we have reached agreement about what we want the tags to mean (if we change anything at all). I have not gone through all the symbolism questions, so (1) I can't say whether the way we use the tag has changed or the nature of our questions and (2) I haven't retagged any such questions recently. (3) Not answerable without going through existing questions. — Tsundoku 16 hours ago
@Tsundoku now that you have started editing, does that mean you've now gone through all of the symbolism questions and observed some patterns? If so (or even if you're just retagging the worst-mistagged for now but will check all 200+ questions later), it would be nice to see an answer compiling the different ways the tag has been used (types of questions it's been used on). Along the lines of what @verbose did in a few answers here.
Bookworm
Bookworm
1
Q: Illustrated children's book about animals travelling world in hot air balloon

emmelismaA random redditor and I have been separately looking for this book for nearly a decade. We are both Canadian and are looking for a book likely from the 1980s-1990s. It is a large format (hardcover?) illustrated children's book about a group of animals travelling the world in a hot air balloon or...

identification-request
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Bookworm First thought from the title: Babar. But it isn't.
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
14:52
@Randal'Thor I have only removed symbolism tags from questions that were very clearly not about symbols or symbolism. I found only a few in the oldest batch from your question. Based on the current definition, the tag wasn't overused all that match.
Bookworm
Bookworm
15:37
0
Q: In Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, what is the significance of the fugue?

Matt ThrowerI'm in the early stages of reading The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse and the protagonist, Joseph Knecht, is visited by a musical maestro. The two play a song together and then the master asks the pupil a curious question: "Do you happen to know what a fugue is?" the Master now asked. Knecht lo...

music hermann-hesse the-glass-bead-game
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
Netflix has just released a screen adaptation of Juan Rulfo's only novel. Perfect timing for our Dec-Jan topic challenge?
 
3 hours later…
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
18:22
@Bookworm This is a question that some might have tagged with symbolism. Possibly Matt thinks fugues represent something without doing that as symbols.
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
19:13
@Randal'Thor And the actor playing the titular character in that adaptation of Rulfo's novel is called Manuel García Rulfo ...

« first day (4839 days earlier)      last day (30 days later) »