A Road Less Travelled

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2 Responses to “Haiku of the Day (Raquel)”

1. on 30 Mar 2006 at 4:16 am1    Jeremy Beach

   I really like this haiku. Although its words are simple, there is an emotional complexity that is made stronger by the haiku’s vagueness. The haiku can be examined by considering the poet, the poet’s unspoken words, and the person to whom the poet alludes. At each level, the reader experiences different emotional responses because his or her mind is left to fill in the unspoken details. It’s haunting because it’s similar to the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The reader only sees the tip and is forced to imagine what the rest of the iceberg is like beneath the surface of the water.

   I hope that you won’t mind me saying this, but your haiku actually reminds me of an Ezra Pound poem titled “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.” This is one of my favorite poems, so I’ll have to try to mention why sometime in a future e-mail, God willing.

   
   
2. on 31 Mar 2006 at 9:31 am2    MacAvram

   Your analysis sounds like something an English major might say;-]

   
   

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