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Now giving lecture on Japanese poetry.
First
giving very old Japanese poem, very
classical:
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O-o-o-o-o-oh willow tree, //
Why are you so sad, willow tree?
// Maybe baby?
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Now giving
nineteenth-century romantic Japanese poem:
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Oh bird, sitting
on willow tree, //
Why are you so sad, bird?
// Maybe baby?
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Now giving up-to-minute
twentieth-century Japanese poem, very
modern: ¶
O-o-o-o-oh
stream, flowing past willow tree,
// Why are you so sad,
stream? // Baby?
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