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Matsuo Basho - A field of cotton

A field of cotton--
as if the moon
    had flowered.

Added: on February 9th, 2005 at 4:29 PM | Viewed: 2922 times | Comments (4)


A field of cotton - Comments and Information

Poet: Matsuo Basho
Poem: A field of cotton
Volume: The Essential Haiku
Year: Published/Written in 1994

Comment 4 of 4, added on December 25th, 2005 at 8:23 AM.

I believe this poem talk about perspective.
the large field cotton, an ugly and full of thistles plant, can look very beautiful from a great distance - just like the moon.

did Basho realized that human kind will reach the moon one day?

Daniel from Israel
Comment 3 of 4, added on October 19th, 2005 at 12:43 PM.

it possesed me with such intense joy to read these lines that i wondered what exactly it was about them that caused it. and i understood that it was a very pure spirit in its purest form that stood there at the cotton field and felt the same wonder and joy; and being also a spirit of extraordinary imagination transmuted that joy into a powerful poem that recreated it to me, removed as i am in time and geography from that experience.

lsr from India
Comment 2 of 4, added on February 9th, 2005 at 4:29 PM.

back bent over the furrows, liza slippping crescent moons into her burlap sack making a wedding gown

jack from United States

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