tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post594905582316257187..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Dust Storm Tanka by Carole Harrison Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-41888596742757248402015-12-23T09:20:15.022-05:002015-12-23T09:20:15.022-05:00Visually and emotionally speaking, a sense of help...Visually and emotionally speaking, a sense of helplessness/hopelessness is effectively conveyed through the poem's opening riveting image and closing rhetorical question. And combined with "rudderless" in its structural focus, the use of personification in the rhetorical question lifts the poem up a notch. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com