Analysis of The Latent Made Manifest
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
If Life is a dream,
then death is Awakening;
darkness turned to Light.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Haiku Tercet |
| Metre | 11101 1110100 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 71 |
| Words | 15 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
How ironic is the interplay of Life and Death. Where one begins, the other ends. Where one ends, makes space for the other’s beginning. This Senryu poem is reminiscent of the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare’s enigmatic philosophical characters Próspero, Ariel, and Caliban in his 1610-1611 play, ‘The Tempest,’ with this perplexing, baffling, mystifying statement uttered: “When I waked, I cried to dream again.” Such is the poetic world of dreams.
Written on November 05, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 05, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on December 07, 2022
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