falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes...
Haiku News, October, 31, 2009
Notes:
1 In celebration of the upcoming 7th anniversary of being a published writer of Japanese short form poetry, I am pleased to announce a new publishing project, Selected Haiku by Chen-ou Liu.
2 Below is excerpted from the comments posted in the comment section:
Editor:
Repetition is also one of my favourite techniques in haiku. When used properly it has a wonderful effect (a kind of doubling up exponentially to create an endlessness, not unlike the Western concept of the “sublime”).
Chen-ou Liu:
Hi! Dick:
“Western concept of the ‘sublime’”
Kantian sublime? Kant identifies the sublime with a quantity, and that quantity is unlimited.
Dick Whyte:
Yeah – that is what I was getting at – the repetition heads toward infinity and creates a sense of the unlimited (or endlessness). It does this by suggesting that the repetition goes on forever (unlimited repetition). Hence, I can read your poem as:
snowflakes
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
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