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The Scallop-Shell
taking in childhood before the war
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tanka are the classic lyric poems of Japanese literature
a classic account of passion and morality
Selected Poems from ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ Gary Geddes The Scallop-ShellThe poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating change the beginning of mass culture, the rise of consumerism and the middle class, the radical redevelopment of the city by Haussmann and they provide many parallels with the malaise and uncertainties of contemporary capitalist societies. Here we find poems about love (and love hate), birds and beasts, Paris scenes and street people; about spiritual