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In this haiku, Shūōshi‘s dream is objective. The poet had fallen asleep and<br />
was probably awakened by something. Perhaps he was having a particularly<br />
pleasant dream, but he awoke and realized with dismay that the reality<br />
around him had changed: the dark surprised the poet, as the second verse<br />
suggests, which forced him to abandon the pleasant warmth of sleep<br />
(objective or simply given by the dream that he was having?) and to deal<br />
with the reality of an autumn evening The kigo is aki no kure, which could<br />
allude to a late autumn evening, accentuating the atmosphere with a further<br />
melancholic and solitary note.<br />
In the following haikuthe , we have a scene similar to the former, but it<br />
displays the inner universe of the author, and hence the poetic expression is<br />
completely different:<br />
uguisu ni<br />
yumesana sareshi<br />
asage chicken<br />
ah, the nightingale<br />
he woke me up from the dream -<br />
morning rice<br />
Yamamoto Ryōkan (3)<br />
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