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RE: To Kill an Ant :: Haiku of Japan #65

in #haiku7 years ago

I don't know of that reading—it's not in my dictionary. Few Japanese would be silently thinking that. The truth is, few Japanese understand haiku at all. They have the same problem we do, they don't understand the allusions or any of the subtle wordplay. Reading old haiku for today's Japanese is like reading Shakespeare is for English speakers: we understand the words (sometimes), but the broader meaning is often beyond us without a teacher to explain it.

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Thank you so much for your thoughts on this, it helps me think on further about meaning and knowing v feeling our way through it.

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