Tare kike to naku karigane zo waga yado no obana ga sue o sugigate ni shite - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

誰聞けと鳴く雁がねぞわが宿の
尾花が末を過ぎがてにして

Roma-ji: Tare kike to naku karigane zo waga yado no obana ga sue o sugigate ni shite
English Translation: For whom to hear them
do the wild geese cry like this—
above the pampas
plumes that grow beside my house,
as if loath to pass them by
Meaning: For whom to hear do the wild geese cry like this, lingering above the tips of the pampas plumes by my house as if unable to pass them by?
Commentary: Book Seven Autumn Poems III 361

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet asks for whom the wild geese can be crying, lingering over the tips of the pampas plumes by the house as if loath to pass on. In the cries of geese that will not leave the roof, it conveys a heart troubled by what it is made to hear.
Where the preceding poem wished the geese would avoid the house, in this one they linger crying above it.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Tare kike to," means "for whom to hear." 373 of this book opens with the same words, "tare kike to," singing of a deer's cry.
The second line, "naku karigane zo," means "is it the geese that cry," with "zo" taking up the question word "tare" in the first line. The poem pauses here.
The third line, "waga yado no," means "of my house."
The fourth line, "obana ga sue o," means "over the tips of the pampas plumes."
The last line, "sugigate ni shite," means "as if unable to pass by." Together with the fourth line it stands in inversion with the second, showing afterward how the geese cry.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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