One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each by Peter Macmillan
Author:Peter Macmillan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141395944
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2018-04-20T16:00:00+00:00
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This poem deploys a particularly characteristic rhetorical device to add freshness and wit to its description of nature: ‘elegant confusion’ (mitate), or mistaking one thing for another (the dew for gems). A dew-covered field is imagined as being where gems from a necklace that had not been secured properly have scattered. The poem can be considered a variation on, or a companion poem to, Kokinshū no. 225, also by Asayasu:
Are those white dewdrops pearls
spread upon the autumn fields?
They are linked
by the silken threads
of a spider’s web.
(Aki no no ni / oku shiratsuyu wa / tama nareya / tsuranukikakuru / kumo no ito suji)
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