[New-Poetry] Segantini and the bad mothers

[Anny Ballardini]

Thank you very much Bob. I can feel the tone in your mail. I also need to
say that mine was a rhetorical statement. I have already made up my mind and
I'm just openly criticizing what many people in this field give for granted.

Have a nice Sunday. Already afternoon here, days off just disappear!

Anny

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

>  Anny Ballardini wrote:
>
> I am wondering, am I the only one who thinks that The Bad Mothers are
> simply "bad mothers"?
>
> http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=2&id=30
>
> My assumption starts from a very simple linguistic statement, that a mother
> is a woman who has a child. A female human being who does not have a child
> is defined a woman, a girl, a lady, ... but not a "mother".
>
> I am specifically denying the following:
>
> The Punishment of Lust belongs to a series of paintings produced between
> 1891-96 on the theme of bad mothers (cattive madri). Segantini was inspired
> by Nirvana, a poem written by the 12th century monk Luigi Illica in
> imitation of the Indian text Panghiavahli. Illica's poem contained the
> phrase 'la Mala Madre' (the bad or wicked mother with an echo similar to 'la
> mala femmina' or prostitute) to describe those women who refused the
> responsibilities of motherhood.
>
> I'm coming into this with no background, Anny, but the paragraph above
> makes sense to me: a bad mother is a woman who has a child but neglects
> it--in this way refusing the responsibilities of motherhood.  She isn't
> refusing motherhood, as you seem to be thinking but the responsibilities
> that go with it..
>
> Hey, I may not know what I'm talking about, but I'm not baiting you,
> honest!
>
> --Bob
>
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