身の憂きを人のつらきと思ふこそ
我とも言はじわりなかりけれ
我とも言はじわりなかりけれ
- Roma-ji
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Mi no uki o hito no tsuraki to omou koso ware to mo iwaji warinakarikere
- English Translation
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To think that the grief
of my own unhappy lot
is your coldness' fault,
I'd not call it my own heart,
so past all reason it is.
- Meaning
- To blame your coldness for the sorrow that belongs to my own lot—that is so unreasonable I cannot even call it my own heart.
- Commentary
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Book Fifteen Love Poems V 945
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that to think the misery of my own lot is due to the other's coldness is so unreasonable that I cannot even call it my own heart. Reflecting on one's own tendency to blame love's suffering on the other, it laments the unreasonableness of that heart.
First line, "mi no uki o," means "the misery of my own lot." It shares with "waga mi hitotsu no uki" in 953 of this book the view of sorrow as belonging to oneself.
Second line, "hito no tsuraki to," means "as due to the other's coldness." It sets "mi," the self, in the first line against "hito," the other, in the second.
Third line, "omou koso," means "to think so, precisely," with the binding particle "koso" forming a kakari-musubi with the final line.
Fourth line, "ware to mo iwaji," means "I will not even call it mine," with "ji" a negative intention. It stands as an inserted phrase.
Final line, "warinakarikere," means "it was unreasonable," concluding with "kere," the realis of the exclamatory "keri," in answer to "koso" in the third line. It shares "warinashi" with the first line of 943 in this book, "warinashi ya."
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Shui Wakashu
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