tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post7986124080488601297..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Hurly-Burly Life Tanka by Marilyn HumbertChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-1854737514893847672015-10-19T15:23:34.502-04:002015-10-19T15:23:34.502-04:00Modeled on traditional Japanese tanka, this visual...Modeled on traditional Japanese tanka, this visually riveting and thematically resonant poem is made up of five poetic phrases (equivalent to five ku of 5-7-5-7-7) and structured into two parts (“jo,” the preface, and the main statement) with a pivot (L3). And the prefatory image is “logically metaphoric or at least resonates closely with the emotional point of the poem” (ibid., xxiii-xxiv). <br /><br />Reference:<br /><br />Edwin Cranston, A Waka Anthology: Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup, Stanford University Press, 1998<br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com