tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post7351778742171216242..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: Cherry Blossom Haiku by Nancy NitrioChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-26702941436708336142013-01-16T09:11:44.111-05:002013-01-16T09:11:44.111-05:00For anyone who is versed in Japanese classical lit...For anyone who is versed in Japanese classical literature, especially in classical haiku, "a dried cherry blossom in the fold of [one's] kimono, functioning like "the madeleine" in Proust's In Search of Lost Time, triggers the remembrance of things past. What's left unsaid in the poem is far more significant that what's said. <br /><br />Here is the link to the most famous example in Proust's work: "episode of the madeleine."<br /><br />http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/proust.html<br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com