Hito o omou kokoro wa ware ni aranebaya mi no madou dani shirarezaruramu - Kokin Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

人を思ふ心は我にあらねばや
身の惑ふだに知られざるらむ

Roma-ji: Hito o omou kokoro wa ware ni aranebaya mi no madou dani shirarezaruramu
English Translation: Is it that my heart
that loves you is no longer
dwelling here in me
that I cannot even tell
how I wander, lost in love
Meaning: Is it because the heart that loves you no longer dwells in me that I cannot even tell that I myself am lost in love?
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems I 523

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poem suggests that the loving heart has gone off to the beloved and is no longer within, which is why the poet cannot even tell that he himself has gone astray. With the witty conceit of separating heart and body, it expresses the state of having lost oneself in love. The next poem, 524, with "the dream path where I wander," continues this bewildered heart.

First line, "Is it that my heart": hito wo omou, loving that person; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, "that loves you is no longer": kokoro wa ware ni means "the heart, within me."
Third line, "dwelling here in me": araneba ya means "is it because it is not?", with ya interrogative, forming a kakari-musubi with ramu at the end.
Fourth line, "that I cannot even tell": mi no madou dani means "even that my body wanders," with dani meaning even.
Fifth line, "how I wander, lost in love": re in shirarezaruramu is the potential auxiliary ru, meaning "why can I not tell?" The reasoning that the heart's departure blinds one to one's own wandering expresses love's bewilderment.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Kokin Wakashu
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