Proud and Beautiful
Proud and Beautiful - meaning Summary
Manufactured Beauty Finally Praised
Sandburg depicts a woman reshaped by shops, stylists, and fashion into an externally perfected figure. The poem tracks the exhaustive process of artificial alteration until, with nothing left to change, onlookers finally call her "proud and beautiful." It registers the hollowness of public praise that arrives only after laborious staging, suggesting a critique of commodified beauty and the social value placed on surface appearances.
Read Complete AnalysesAFTER you have spent all the money modistes and manicures and mannikins will take for fixing you over into a thing the people on the streets call proud and beautiful, After the shops and fingers have worn out all they have and know and can hope to have and know for the sake of making you what the people on the streets call proud and beautiful, After there is absolutely nothing more to be done for the sake of staging you as a great enigmatic bird of paradise and they must all declare you to be proud and beautiful, After you have become the last word in good looks, insofar as good looks may be fixed and formulated, then, why then, there is nothing more to it then, it is then you listen and see how voices and eyes declare you to be proud and beautiful.
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