Uki koto no madoromu hodo wa wasurarete samureba yume no kokochi koso sure - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

憂きことのまどろむほどは忘られて
覚むれば夢の心地こそすれ

Roma-ji: Uki koto no madoromu hodo wa wasurarete samureba yume no kokochi koso sure
English Translation: All my sorrows fade,
forgotten for a little
while I doze away,
and when I wake, it is this
that feels to me like a dream
Meaning: While I doze my sorrows are forgotten, and when I wake it is the waking world that feels as if it were a dream.
Commentary: Book Seventeen Miscellaneous Poems II 1125

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
While I doze my sorrows are forgotten, and when I wake it feels like a dream, the poet says. While sleeping one can forget one's pains, but on waking one is dragged back to sorrowful reality. That reality is so painful that it seems, on the contrary, to be the bad dream, and through this reversal of dream and waking the poet sings of the suffering of the sorrowful world.
The author is given as "anonymous," and the name is not known.
It shares "samu," to wake, and dream with "samubeki hodo wa" in the fourth line of 1123 of this book. Where 1123 sees this world as a dream without knowing when one will wake, this poem feels the waking reality itself to be the dream.

First line, "uki koto no": "my sorrows."
Second line, "madoromu hodo wa": "while I doze."
Third line, "wasurarete": "re" is the continuative of the spontaneous auxiliary "ru," "they are forgotten of themselves."
Fourth line, "samureba yume no": "when I wake, a dream's." It shares "samu" with "samubeki hodo wa" in the fourth line of 1123 of this book.
Fifth line, "kokochi koso sure": "koso" is an emphatic binding particle closing with the realis "sure."
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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