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Thank you all very much for the help.
The responses are most intriguing.
I'm still a bit confused. I wonder if
Prof. Uno might be good enough to help
me. In Japanese are the words and
characters for blue and green distinct?

Thanks very much,
Dan.

>From: Richard Seddon <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
>Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 07:14:36 -0700
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>Dear List:
>
>In addition to the excellent translational analysis Hiroko Uno provides
>I would like to suggest two additional reasons for Pound's choice of
>"blue"
>
>A) rhythm--blue "works" with plum in a way that green does not.  "Blue"
>and "plum" are formed in the mouth and then forced out in much the same
>way.  They create a nice quick rhyme.
>
>B) color Imagism- John Gould Fletcher, in fact, experimented with a
>Imagistic poetry of color.  (see the essay on John Gould Fletcher in
>"Imagism and the Imagist by Glenn Hughes) Hiroko Uno's explanation
>explicates the Image that Pound was trying to produce.
>
>Rick Seddon
>Portales, NM, USA

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