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Analysis and comments on A bee by Matsuo Basho

Comment 2 of 2, added on June 7th, 2008 at 10:52 AM.

I like this translation better and it makes more sense as a poem to me. The Haas translation seems too cryptic for my ear.
Ray

How reluctantly
the bee emerges from the deep
within the peony


Ray Rasmussen from Canada
Comment 1 of 2, added on May 23rd, 2006 at 12:53 PM.

WHERE THE #@!* IS THE FREAKING POEM??!!

annonymas from United States



Information about A bee

Poet: Matsuo Basho
Poem: A bee
Volume: The Essential Haiku
Year: 1994
Added: Feb 20 2003
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