There was a cultural shift circa 1900 about hygiene. It probably ties in with Prohibition, chemical warfare in World War I, the growth of the European and U.S. chemical industries in the late 1800s, new electrical and lighting technologies.. A book there to be written, if it has not been, about all of that as it relates to the Spanish flu and WWI.
And of course now there's the cultural shift stemming from the Internet and cell phones, leading into this coronavirus mania.
Yes. It is interesting to consider that, perhaps to *some* extent, the poem is responding to hygiene changes that were new at the time but which are now everywhere (though I don't really know, that's just speculation on my part). And now the critic would argue that I am doing the same, and in a hundred years...
Comment about the Bunny being a "Hotbed of Disease" could've been lifted from Twitter this afternoon, though.
There was a cultural shift circa 1900 about hygiene. It probably ties in with Prohibition, chemical warfare in World War I, the growth of the European and U.S. chemical industries in the late 1800s, new electrical and lighting technologies.. A book there to be written, if it has not been, about all of that as it relates to the Spanish flu and WWI.
And of course now there's the cultural shift stemming from the Internet and cell phones, leading into this coronavirus mania.
Yes. It is interesting to consider that, perhaps to *some* extent, the poem is responding to hygiene changes that were new at the time but which are now everywhere (though I don't really know, that's just speculation on my part). And now the critic would argue that I am doing the same, and in a hundred years...
Comment about the Bunny being a "Hotbed of Disease" could've been lifted from Twitter this afternoon, though.