The following poem occurs in a footnote by Burton in his Arabian Nights translation, at the beginning of the Tale of Aziz and Azizah, in night 112. Burton elaborates on the "fond affection of clever women for fools", which he says is explained by the couplet:
I love my love with an S—
Because ...
Is it just me or has the room grown quieter in recent months? At first I thought it was just a summer lull, but we are now mid September and the room is still rather quiet.
The first stanza of the second part of Gabriela Mistral's poem Dos himnos contains the following lines (emphasis mine):
¡Cordillera de los Andes,
Madre yacente y Madre que anda,
que de niños nos enloquece
y hace morir cuando nos falta;
que en los metales y el amianto
nos aupaste las entrañas;
T...
Sixteen questions about Gabriela Mistral so far. That is a high number for a topic challenge focusing specifically on poetry. For comparison, the William Blake challenge generated 10 questions. Rabindranath Tagore generated 22 questions, but that number includes questions about Tagore's prose.
spanish-language currently has 91 questions. Only nine additional questions are needed to make the tag eligible for tag badges. Perhaps the upcoming Juan Rulfo challenge will help the tag reach that threshold.
@Bookworm Certainly asbestos was processed in Chile for more than a century. There is a famous (or rather infamous) case of a company trying to cover up the damage it did in that time: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
Ah, I had not encountered any asbestos references before.
Asbestos is a rather curious mineral to reference in poetry. Unlike gold, silver and iron. References to asbestos are rather unlikely to be random, I would say.
@Tsundoku I think poetry challenges tend to get more questions more easily, because it's easier to just dip in, read a short poem and ask a question about it, without committing to a novel-size work.
@Bookworm Should this have the arabic-language tag like all the other 1001-nights questions? Or not, because the thing it's asking about is from a footnote which was never originally in Arabic?
The first stanza of the second part of Gabriela Mistral's poem Dos himnos contains the following lines (emphasis mine):
¡Cordillera de los Andes,
Madre yacente y Madre que anda,
que de niños nos enloquece
y hace morir cuando nos falta;
que en los metales y el amianto
nos aupaste las entrañas;
T...
