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Posted by Persephone on December 14, 19101 at 15:19:47:
In Reply to: Re: Rag and Bone Shop: what is it? posted by ille on June 27, 19101 at 07:57:35:
: : I just read a young adult novel that references lines from a Yeats poem. Was a rag and bone shop a mortuary? If not, can you enlighten me? Thanks.
: Rag and bone shop = a scrap shop. Folks used to go collect scraps, garbage, rummage through trash etc. The US in the early 1900s still had "Ragmen" who would collect old bits of cloth. The cloth could be used for whatever, and the bones for fertilizer. Now of course, it's illegal. It "looks" bad, and people will get arrested for trying to scrape together an honest living the best way they can. Now we just produce massive amounts of garbage. But hey, that's progress.
: That being said, there could also be a redefinition of the term in the context of the poem. What poem is it from?
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