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  "text": "Of Breath and Shadow’s Claim\n\nTo live, mere breath; to die, vain boast,\nNo hallow’d creed to gird my frame.\nLife’s shadow mocks the fleeting host,\nDeath’s jest doth crown ambition’s name.\nWhat mortal coil spins naught but dust?\nA dream unknit by time’s cold claim.\n\n#Poetry #Poem #PoetryCommunity",
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        "alt": "Hans Baldung Grien’s The Ages of Woman and Death (1510) is a haunting Northern Renaissance allegory of mortality and vanity. The oil painting depicts three female figures: a child shrouded in innocence, a youthful woman gazing into a convex mirror—a symbol of transient beauty—and an elderly woman locked in a futile struggle with Death. Death, portrayed as a gaunt, decaying figure, looms over the scene, clutching an hourglass to mark life’s brevity. The child’s oblivious play contrasts with the young woman’s narcissistic absorption, while the elder’s desperate resistance underscores humanity’s futile defiance of time. Baldung’s composition, rich in symbolic tension, reflects the vanitas theme, emphasizing life’s fragility against death’s inevitability. The owl at the lower left, a traditional omen of wisdom and mortality, and the distant crucifixion scene hint at spiritual stakes. This macabre dance between vitality and decay mirrors the poem’s existential meditation on ambition’s emptiness and time’s “cold claim,” framing life as a fleeting shadow beneath Death’s jesting crown.\n\nImage source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ages_and_Death",
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