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