First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog
The title comes from Leslie Poles Hartley's 1953 novel, titled The Go-Between, whose opening sentence is as follows: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there", has become almost proverbial.
The second haiku alludes to one of Basho"s:Even in Kyoto --hearing the cuckoo's cry --I long for Kyoto.
The title comes from Leslie Poles Hartley's 1953 novel, titled The Go-Between, whose opening sentence is as follows:
ReplyDeleteThe past is a foreign country: they do things differently there", has become almost proverbial.
The second haiku alludes to one of Basho"s:
ReplyDeleteEven in Kyoto --
hearing the cuckoo's cry --
I long for Kyoto.