https://padlet.com/atcastaneda/bjp61z88jcdif9q6 :)) en-us 2021-09-06 05:53:13 UTC 2024-12-20 09:19:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1328231260/f6cbe9a042a08d45d4d1c7101b40e0ee/Untitled_Artwork.jpg atcastaneda https://padlet.com/atcastaneda/bjp61z88jcdif9q6/wish/1718683777 When reading through this Thursday's readings, specifically the One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (Hyakunin Isshu) reading. I'm pretty interested in Poetry, especially after taking an American Poetry class my first semester at Berkeley. What I found interesting about reading classic Japanese literature was actually how it compared to the anthology book that I read in that class. In the book The New American Poetry 1945-1960 which was assigned in class I read lots of more contemporary bay area poets yet I still managed to find some similarities between the two. Although the American Contemporary tends to be longer poems, I found that some of the Japanese poems seemed to also integrate the shape of the writing and not just the words themselves. One perfect example of this is Kakinomoto no Hitomaro which in its entirety says, "The long tail of the copper pheasant trails, drags on and on like this long night alone in the lonely mountains, longing for my love" I find that the fact that every word is placed in its so long to form one long poem adds a lot to the meaning and the quality of the poem and that is the exact characteristic that attracted me to the poetry in my American Poetry class. The changes in the orthodox used to really capture the meaning of the poem makes me appreciate them so much more.

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Donald Allen, The New American Poetry 1945-1960(NY: Grove Press, 1960)]]> 2021-09-06 06:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/atcastaneda/bjp61z88jcdif9q6/wish/1718683777 atcastaneda https://padlet.com/atcastaneda/bjp61z88jcdif9q6/wish/1734960472 Quotation: "The poetry that Japanese writers composed in Chinese during the ninth century bears a close resemblance to Six Dynasties poetry. Surely it was no great step from writing Chinese imitations to adapting some of the characteristics of these Chinese models to the Japanese waka" Kokinshū, p.7

What I found interesting about the document shown in the external source that I imaged above in relation to the quotation was that it serves as the perfect example of how poetry to the Japanese wasn't just an act of imitation. The fact that the Japanese would give their collections of poetry titles like "the finest of the meibutsu-gire (famous calligraphic works)." shows how unlikely they were to simply copy the work of others when poetry was, and continues to be, so valued culturally. I often find myself reading all types of poetry from different periods and locations so knowing that poets value their own original work, yet are able to model the work of others makes me appreciate the similarities and differences between all forms of poetry.

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eMuseum "Fragment from the Hon'ami Edition of Kokin Wakashu (Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poems)." Accessed Sep 12, 2021 https://emuseum.nich.go.jp/detail?langId=en&webView=null&content_base_id=101056&content_part_id=0&content_pict_id=0]]> 2021-09-13 04:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/atcastaneda/bjp61z88jcdif9q6/wish/1734960472