Yun Sun-Do

Characters overcome what life brings them and finding meaning in the things that they have in The Samurai's Garden by Tsukiyama. Stephan who experiences this watches as Matsu and Sachi work in their gardens. The gardens represent their gardener’s soul because they nurture and dictate everything that happens within the gardens walls.

Matsu grows a very special garden in the novel, which may correlate to the title. Gail talks about it repeatedly and readers can tell Matsu and even other characters deeply appreciate this garden of his. From the beautiful nature, to the deeper meanings behind it, and to the hard work put into it. “Matsu’s garden whispers at you, never shouts;

Imagery was also used in the poem.  I found that the yellow in the first line represented that the future the writer was facing was bright and warm regardless of his choice.  The undergrowth was, as undergrowth in any forest, damp and dank smelling, but not necessarily unpleasant, just something that the writer would have to face.  The image of traveling through a forest also brings to mind thoughts of birds in flight, chirping and singing.  Squirrels dashing through trees, rustling leaves and dropping the occasional acorn or nut also create an image of sight and sound.  The sun reflecting through the trees, casting shadows and creating pockets of warm and cool air and the occasional breeze stirring through the trees are also brought to mind by this poem.  The end of the poem brings to me

I met Shiyi Wang and Luheng Ding in 2011. They rented rooms in my house at that time. We would see each other often in a daily basis, since they live at my house.

The poem is trying to show that language doesn’t pull you away from your roots. The setting, sound, the word choice, and the form in which the poem is written can be used to help understand the message.

The poem states how you should join hands with everyone and be courageous together. Instead of being fearful to do things by yourself, if you coadunate with other people, you all can be courageous together. They both connect to being courageous and coming together to do so.

The imagery shows that since the character is young and responsible, he works to support him and his family. We are first introduced to the image of the young boy working as a young adult. Then, in the first 9 lines, the author describes the setting of the poem using imagery such as, “sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it,” “Five mountain ranges one behind the other,” “under the sunset far into

Forman, in the third stanza, writes of a man, or the personified version of poetry, dressed in “fine plum linen suits” (9). Plum, symbolic to the Japanese for happiness and good fortune and symbolic to the Jewish for divine grace, was not placed in the poem involuntarily. We must carry ourselves with the sophistication and refined education we have received, but we need to sit down and talk about “the comins and goins of the world” (line 12). Poetry can bring you back to your memories and make you sit to think about the world. Even some of the shortest and most simplistic-looking poems are the hardest to decipher because of the hidden messages behind the text. It is important to take a moment, and not to rush, the reading of poetry or the conversations of life because you may miss something important with the assumption of thinking you hold this divine knowledge.

The poem "A Song of Changgan" is very poignant, as it starts with a bashful girl who does not even smile around her husband and ends with her almost heartbroken, as her husband is far away. The poem shows the different stages of the relationship of the speaker and her husband, and it is an excellent example of long-distance relationships before modern communication systems.

Kodojin’s Japanese poetry was exhibited through his own haikus, a poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five. In an ever-changing world, he focused on simple things like nature, things that cannot be changed. His haikus represent Dao; harmony, natural order, the absolute principle underlying the universe. The following haiku written by Kodojin alluding to Tao’s love of chrysanthemums, which the poet had planted by a hedge, “over the hedge/ a few mountains can be seen/ chrysanthemums/ Your house too/ planted only with/ yellow chrysanthemums,” exhibits the inner peace one feels in nature, which signifies the meaning of

The different groups of people within the poem represent the different stages of life. At the beginning of the poem it talks about a young boy and his dog and swimmers. Several lines down it talks about “young lovers” and then families.

Nature is inspiring and sometimes we forget the healing it brings to the soul. The novels "Kusamakura" and "Narrow Road to the Interior" deal in great part with Zen Buddhism, likewise with nature and how is it part of everyday life. Even though is difficult to achieve complete peacefulness, nature helps us step outside our shells, our drama, our mental dilemmas and become capable of appreciating life on life terms. Nature is in all our surroundings, it even appears in dreams and both novels do a great job captivating natures beauty in poems. Some of these poems are haiku poems that contain originally 17 syllables. They are short poems that capture a big piece of beauty, of nature through time.

The poem begins with the poet noticing the beauty around her, the fall colors as the sun sets “Their leaves and fruits seemed painted, but was true, / Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hue;” (5-6). The poet immediately relates the effects of nature’s beauty to her own spiritual beliefs. She wonders that if nature here on Earth is so magnificent, then Heaven must be more wonderful than ever imagined. She then views a stately oak tree and

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

Here is the interpretation and analysis of the poem based on the sections that respect the grammar and meaning of its sentences: