tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post8999949372388022531..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: Talk of War Haiku by Ben Moeller-GaaChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-80815764798149121252015-07-04T07:50:39.532-04:002015-07-04T07:50:39.532-04:00L1 establishes the theme while the concluding imag...L1 establishes the theme while the concluding image in Ls 2&3, especially in L3 (which is layered with multiple meanings), enhances the mood of the poem.<br /><br />Ben's sociopolitically conscious haiku reminds me of one stanza of Robert Bly's famous anti-Vietnam War poem, entitled "Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings,"<br /><br />Our own gaiety<br />Will end up<br />In Asia, and you will look down in your cup<br />And see<br />Black Starfighters.<br />Our own cities were the ones we wanted to bomb!<br /><br />(note: The fighting image of Black Starfighters reflected in the coffee cup directly and psychologically connects the war fought outside the American soil with the mind and heart of the individual reader, hinting at an unavoidable relationship between the gaiety of Americans and their capacity for destructing their own lives and those of other people)Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com