tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post462370920743152038..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Mountain Mists Tanka by Alegria ImperialChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-1236718408645573962015-08-13T08:34:18.670-04:002015-08-13T08:34:18.670-04:00Thematically speaking, this evocative tanka is tig...Thematically speaking, this evocative tanka is tightly framed by the symbolically rich and psychologically resonant phrases, [the speaker's seeing through] "through 'mountain mists'" and [a skylark illuminating] "a thought/conjured in 'darkness.'" And the relationship between the speaker and the skylark reminds me of that of Percy Bysshe Shelley and the skylark in "To a Skylark."<br /><br />Note: "'To a Skylark' is considered a work of metric virtuosity in its ability to convey the swift movement of the bird who swoops high above the earth, beyond mortal experience. The skylark is a symbol of the joyous spirit of the divine; it cannot be understood by ordinary, empirical methods. The poet, longing to be a skylark, muses that the bird has never experienced the disappointments and disillusionments of human life, including the diminishment of passion."Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com