tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post5342130119560859061..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: Autumn Metro Haiku by Marietta McGregorChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-48698561054877117692018-08-01T09:57:27.085-04:002018-08-01T09:57:27.085-04:00L1 sets the scene and the seasonal context while L...L1 sets the scene and the seasonal context while Ls 2&3 effectively enhance the tone and mood of this multi-sensory haiku. It might be interested to make a comparative reading of the following metro poem ("first published hokku in English"):<br /><br />In a Station of the Metro<br /><br />The apparition of these faces in the crowd;<br />Petals on a wet, black bough.<br /><br />Lustra, 1916<br /><br />Ezra Pound<br /><br /><br />Note: For more information about Pound's "metro hokku," see my "To the Lighthouse" post, Haikuesque Reading of Ezra Pound’s “Metro Poem” (http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2013/03/to-lighthouse-haikuesque-reading-of.html), and "Poetic Musings" post, Ezra Pound’s "Metro Poem" as a Yugen Haiku (http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2013/04/poetic-musings-ezra-pounds-metro-poem.html)<br /> Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com