tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post4416419161944509449..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Stars Tanka by S.M. Abeles Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-46946733536947002802014-05-14T19:56:11.090-04:002014-05-14T19:56:11.090-04:00This is a spectacular piece of imagery...a paintin...This is a spectacular piece of imagery...a painting of words in a starry night.Harry Routhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01735234884858959183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-49277322598629664102014-05-03T17:13:15.762-04:002014-05-03T17:13:15.762-04:00Technically speaking, this is a good example of wh...Technically speaking, this is a good example of what American poet, Archibald MacLeish, calls a "coupling of images:"<br /><br />"One image is established by words which make it sensuous and vivid to the <br />the eyes or ears or touch-to any of the senses. Another image is put beside it. <br />And a meaning appears which is neither the meaning of one image nor the <br />meaning of the other nor even the sum of both but a consequence of both-a <br />consequence of both in their conjunction, in their relation to each other."<br /><br />It is in the "space between'" that the poem grows.<br /><br />I'll further explore this technique in my next "To the Lighthouse" post.<br /><br />And thematically speaking, the "myth-making" aspect of the poem might speak more about the speaker's state of mind/mood.<br /><br /><br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com