tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post412410619147007274..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: Frozen Frog Haiku by Jane ReichholdChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-49685626785116717282013-07-17T09:37:07.251-04:002013-07-17T09:37:07.251-04:00First of all, semantically speaking, the above poe...First of all, semantically speaking, the above poem is made up of two parts that are separated by a kireji (cutting word), kana. The first part is that in the old pond there is an aging frog, whose honi (poetic essence) is “suggestive of spring,… [implying] vigor and youth.” 3 The second part introduces the reader to the scene fallen leaves, whose honi refers to winter. 4<br /><br />Secondly, technically speaking, Buson employs the puzzle-solving technique to hold the reader in suspense in the first part of the poem (a supposedly youthful and energetic frog is getting old), and he solves the puzzle in the second part through shifting the scene to a winter setting where the seemingly disparate elements of the poem suddenly make sense: the frog is approaching old age, hibernating under fallen leaves that cover the ice in an old pond. 5<br /><br />....<br /><br />View the full text of Poetic Musings: Contextualized Reading of Buson’s Frog Haiku," http://goo.gl/XZ7MU)<br /><br /><br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-89498483108086184872013-07-17T09:32:19.489-04:002013-07-17T09:32:19.489-04:00Juxtaposed with "pond ripples," "he...Juxtaposed with "pond ripples," "heartbeat" of a frozen frog/ "warms" again works well on two levels, literal and metaphoric. Jane's beautifully-crafted two-axis poem could be read as a response haiku to Buson's below, a parodically allusive one that opens up a window into the lamentable situation of the eighteenth century haikau community (For more info., see "Poetic Musings: Contextualized Reading of Buson’s Frog Haiku," http://goo.gl/XZ7MU)<br /><br />Inheriting one of our ancestor’s verses<br /><br />the old pond's <br />frog is growing elderly<br />fallen leaves <br /><br />Note: As Haruo Shirane demonstrates in his book titled "Traces of Dreams," Basho believed that “the poet had to work along both axes: to work only in the present would result in poetry that was fleeting; to work just in the past, on the other hand, would be to fall out of touch with the fundamental nature of haikai, which was rooted in the everyday world.” Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com