Analysis of Joyfully Speechless!
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
“Yugen” in Japan.
The experience of Awe.
Mount Fuji sunset!
Scheme | ABC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Haiku Tercet |
Metre | 1001 0010011 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 63 |
Words | 12 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
“YUGEN:” Things and occasions that evoke mystery, the magical, awe, immeasurable joy, and wonder, often leaving one speechless. In traditional aesthetics, the Japanese word “yugen,” pertaining to one’s profound awareness of, and sense of Oneness with, the universe at a given moment in time , and which is inexplicably deep, too mysterious to be explained in words, leaving one breathlessly silent, evokes such an experience of the ever essence of all that is divinely magical. Mount Fuji, Fujisan, especially at a time of Golden sunset, leaves its beholder with such a precious experience, often captured in waka, haiku, other forms of Japanese poetry, the performing arts, literature, and painting. This haiku poem registers the epitome of yugen; that Silence is Golden! more »
Written on December 22, 2021
Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 22, 2021
Modified by karlcfolkes on October 05, 2022
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