tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post6122708976523449838..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: Spring Skies Haiku by Kris LindbeckChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-14759607570708851962015-04-16T08:17:05.991-04:002015-04-16T08:17:05.991-04:00L1 sets the scene and establishes the seasonal con...L1 sets the scene and establishes the seasonal context while the mood and feel of the poem is greatly enhanced through the excellent combined use of oxymoronic hyperbole and synaesthesia in Ls 2&3.<br /><br />In this haiku, oxymoron is generated not by any particular linguistic structure or form of expression but mainly through the meanings and associations of the words themselves by the creation of an opposition or contrast between elevated ("ga," represented by spring skies) and unrefined ("zoku," represented by the crow and its caw) registers (Kawamoto, Ibid., 112).<br /><br /> In order to enhance the mood and feel evoked by the warm and joyful scene, "spring skies," the auditory image, "the crow's caw" (the hoarse raucous sound), is beautified and described with the visual phrase, "full of light" in a hyperbolic manner as indicated by the use of even ("the force of hyperbole is frequently borne by the appearance of the particle "mo" ("even;" for more examples, see Kawamoto, Ibid., pp. 79-82)<br /><br /><br />For more info. about oxymoron, see "To the Lighthouse: A Rhetorical Device, Oxymoron," accessed at http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/2015/04/to-lighthouse-rhetorical-device-oxymoron.htmlChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com