Back to Against the Day: El Angel Mexico City

[alice wellintown]

El Angel, is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Mexico City, a focal
point for both celebration and for protest.  So the history, the ambiguity,
the conflicts within and without, internal and external. That gold hammered
reminds us of Yeats again, the Grecian Goldsmioths hammer the speaker of
the the poem into an immortal work of art. ANd, perhaps it is Rilke's Angel
here as well. Frank looks through a telescope set up by someone else, fixed
on the face of El Angel. Why has someone been spying on the Angel or
observing its expressions? Winged Victory wears a mask of an Angel? A
ceremonial mask? This is the bit that stirs my thoughts. There will be time
to prepare a face to meet the faces in the room where the women come and go
talking...it seems that Frank has come to the holy city, like the speaker
in Byzantium, to look into the face of Victory, but has been shown a mask,
a ritual mask, a face he has hidden from, but can no longer.

http://www.oxherding.com/my_weblog/2010/02/rilke.html


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:41 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://www.worldtransformation.com/freedom-book1-adventurous-adolescentman/
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> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> P. 989. Frank is transfixed by the face of this Angel.....a face of
>> beaten gold, taken into a realm proper more to ceremonial masks.....yet a
>> face he recognized (in italics)......
>> Which speaks to him....
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>> Evidently about his recent brush with death via locomotive...
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>> Angel of Death?........the beaten gold = money allusion
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>> This angel any relation to any of Rilke's?
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>> > http://www.zanzig.com/travel/mexico-photos/m005-070.htm
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>> > Sent from my iPad
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