Saritomo to omou kokoro mo mushi no ne mo yowarihatenuru aki no kure kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

さりともと思ふ心も虫の音も
弱り果てぬる秋の暮れかな

Roma-ji: Saritomo to omou kokoro mo mushi no ne mo yowarihatenuru aki no kure kana
English Translation: Even so, someday,
the heart that hoped as much
and the insects' voices
both have weakened utterly:
the end of autumn now
Meaning: Both the heart that hoped "even so, someday" and the insects' voices have weakened utterly at the end of autumn.
Commentary: Book Five Autumn Poems II 333

Headnote: "Composed as a poem on insects in a hundred-poem sequence lamenting my own lot, around the Hōen era"
Composed around the Hōen era (1135 to 1141) as a poem on insects, when the poet wrote a hundred-poem sequence lamenting his own ill fortune. Both the heart that still hoped "even so, someday" and the insects' voices, he says, have weakened utterly at autumn's end. In the insects' fading voices he lays his own heart, nearly bereft of hope for advancement, and sings of the season's end and life's disappointment as one.
The author, "Kōtaigōgū no Daibu Shunzei," was the son of Provisional Middle Counselor Fujiwara no Toshitada. At the command of Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa he compiled this anthology, the Senzai Wakashū. He was the father of Fujiwara no Teika, and a poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
It is a poem of personal lament from the compiler's own younger days. It shares "koe yowariyuku" and "aki no kurenuru" with 331, two poems before, overlaying the fading of the insects' voices with the end of autumn.

First line, "saritomo to": "even so, surely someday," a feeling of clinging to hope.
Second line, "omou kokoro mo": "the heart that so hopes, too," set side by side with "mushi no ne mo" in the third line.
Third line, "mushi no ne mo": repeating "mo" with "kokoro mo" in the second line, it sets the human heart and the insects' voices on the same footing.
Fourth line, "yowarihatenuru": "yowarihatsu" is to weaken utterly, and "nuru" is the attributive of the perfective "nu," applying to both heart and voices. Taking up "koe yowariyuku" in 331 of this book, it shows the fading at its extreme.
Fifth line, "aki no kure kana": autumn's end, overlaid with the decline of a life, and "kana" is exclamatory. It answers "aki no kurenuru" in 331 of this book.
Author: Fujiwara no Shunzei
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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