Ricalton's original text from which this was extracted may or may not have gone into deeper detail about foot binding. I have the book, but it is packed away. Will dig it out later to compare.
In any case, his description is certainly "cleaned up" for this stereoview, as he fails to mention that the children's toes are all broken by hand before being "turned under the foot", as well as having the ankle and other bones broken and dislocated as well.
The main CLOSE UP CROP with all discussion, comments, and a detailed description of the bone-breaking process gleaned from other sources (and omitted in the above scan) will be seen HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3462167744/in/set-7215...
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making and balancing on eyebeams above a sea of faces paces his way to the other side of the day performing entrachats and sleight-of-foot tricks and other high theatrics and all without mistaking any thing for what it may not be For he’s the super realist who must perforce perceive taut truth before the taking of each stance or step in his supposed advance toward that still higher perch where Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap And he a little charleychaplin man who may or may not catch her fair eternal form spreadeagled in the empty air of existence
i need help finding metaphors in this poem..i've found 13 i need 2 more!!! help?!
