我が嘆く心のうちの苦しさも
何にたとへて君に知られん
何にたとへて君に知られん
- Roma-ji
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Waga nageku kokoro no uchi no kurushisa mo nani ni tatoete kimi ni shiraren
- English Translation
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The pain that I feel
deep within my grieving heart,
this too, I wonder—
to what could I compare it
so that you might come to know?
- Meaning
- And the pain within my grieving heart—to what could I compare it so that you might come to know it?
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1253
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "One hundred and ten love poems"
The pain within my grieving heart, too—to what could I liken it so that you might know it? the poet asks.
Following the preceding poem's lament that he cannot write it all, this one sings of the frustration that even comparison cannot convey it; the depth of love's pain exceeds any figure of speech.
First line, “waga nageku”: that I lament.
Second line, “kokoro no uchi no”: within my heart.
Third line, “kurushisa mo”: the pain too, adding to the feelings he could not write out.
Fourth line, “nani ni tatoete”: likening it to what.
Fifth line, “kimi ni shiraren”: re is passive and n conjectural, "might you come to know it?"
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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