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120 the poem while also wanting to show the greatness of living in two languages and cultures as a poet. However, Sakutaro Hagiwara (Japanese poet) read this poetry very literally and thus only received the surface level meaning and unfortunately, following this, many other Japanese poets and literary critics followed. The prelude poetry turned out to be self-destruction. Since then, almost none of Noguchi’s actual poems have been criticized or discussed; only the prelude poem of Niju Kokusekisha No Shi. It seems as if Noguchi determined his own fate. In this sense, the poem has been a very significant fact in his life as a poet. Since he started writing poems with poet Joaquin Miller in California’s Bay Area where the Bohemian Club was very active, he became friends and exchanged influences with those that have solid and highly reputable positions in today’s history of both American and English literature, such as W.B.Yeats, William Michael Rossetti, and Arthur Ransome. While the English literary world were known to cling strongly to their long history and profound traditions, they still graciously accepted this Japanese young man, Noguchi, who had neither status nor reputation, but merely wrote poetry in their language. The English literary world generously said that their concern was not regarding Noguchi’s nationality, but his conception of the poet. His achievement is simply extraordinary; therefore, Noguchi never deserves the level of ignorance currently existing within the Japanese literary world. Japan, while on one hand very rapidly after the Meiji restoration tried to become westernized, at the same time has always maintained the phenomenon of clinging to “Japaneseness”. Therefore, Japan as a whole was not ready to accept or evaluate Japanese people who had international careers. As Isamu later admitted, Noguchi was too ahead of his time. Even though he lived in his own country, he was always isolated and existed as “L’Etranger.”
近代日本における、ある異邦人の宿命 121 In today’s globalizing world, there are a number of people who have lives similar to Noguchi’s. The number of people who leave their country and make another country their second home while creating a third culture from their first and second cultures, continues to grow. From this, studying Noguchi and reevaluating his life is becoming more important than ever before.
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