tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post605563896718835582..comments2024-03-27T11:10:57.384-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Anti-War Tanka by Sanford GoldsteinChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-54983741562785065192016-01-28T08:59:11.450-05:002016-01-28T08:59:11.450-05:00Sanford's cinematic minimalist tanka ( 10 word...Sanford's cinematic minimalist tanka ( 10 words in total) zooms in very close to a part (L1:"a red"; extreme close-up shot) of a plastic whistle (Ls 1&2; close-up), and gradually zoom out ("I blow"; medium shot)to include the people (L4: "at the anti-war"; long shot) in the demonstration (L5; extreme long shot).<br /><br />His tanka effectively builds, line/shot by line/shot, to an unexpected yet sociopolitically powerful ending that has the most weight and reveals the anti-war theme.Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com