tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post9046927828332357466..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Two Sides Tanka by Lesley Anne SwansonChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-24312702303446067962016-10-12T09:43:03.306-04:002016-10-12T09:43:03.306-04:00Lesley's take on the role of identity in accul...Lesley's take on the role of identity in acculturation among immigrants reminds me of one of my immigration tanka, used in my "Poet and Tanka" essay (Ribbons, 12:2, Spring/Summer 2016, p103, which can be accessed at http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/2016/07/a-poets-roving-thoughts-journey-itself.html)<br /><br />... Tanka is a short form poetry, and it requires the poet to have acute observation skills and a set of literary techniques to distill his/her feeling, thought, or experience to its essence. In his study of Masaoka Shiki's life and work, The Winter Sun Shines In, Donald Keene makes a similar point: “A haiku or a tanka without rhetoric was likely to be no more than a brief observation without poetic tension or illumination" ...<br /><br />The rhetorical device of defamiliarization to effectively convey the speaker's sense of estrangement or displacement.<br /><br />black coffee<br />and Chinese fried dough ...<br />in my mouth<br />a foreign tongue<br />licking these lips<br /><br />NeverEnding Story, February 1, 2015<br />(For most Chinese people, this food combination of "black coffee/and Chinese fried dough" is weird/westernized; usually, a typical Chinese breakfast includes soybean milk or a bowl of congee and Chinese fried dough)<br /> <br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-39425000308997989802016-10-12T09:35:53.087-04:002016-10-12T09:35:53.087-04:00Lesley's message tanka works effectively throu...Lesley's message tanka works effectively through challenging the cultural concept conveyed in the old adage, "you are what you eat," sparking the reader's reflection on the role of identity in acculturation among immigrants.<br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com