"What a world,
Where lotus flowers,
Are ploughed into a field."
Short but oh so sweet. Only three lines but I feel like I can talk about this all day. It's all subject. No rhyme scheme, no fancy wording or extensive metaphors and figurative speech. This is very common in haikus because you don't have too much space to write. You have a very simple yet very important message to get across and you do it in hardly a handful of words. What a world! I think that statement can be used for greatness or for worse. I think this poem is for the latter. Lotus flowers, very beautiful flowers of Japan, being ploughed into a field. What a world! To extend it some more, let's say what kind of world do we live in where... What kind of world do we live in where beautiful flowers are ploughed into a field? A bad one. I totally agree. Like George Carlin said only a population of half-headed dimwits or something could turn such a pristine paradise into a giant SHOPPING MALL! This ocean used to be a vast area of green jungles and lengthy deserts and biodiversity beyond imagination. Nowadays we're building everything we can everywhere and destroying other organisms' habitats and even our own! Our factories and vehicles are causing pollution and not only is it bad for the earth's conditions but how does it make us look? What if an alien civilization comes to see us and figure that we'll be dead within a few hundred years because of how much we're ruining the atmosphere and the great land we've been given. Jungles FULL of life in every square foot are being torn down to make room for more SH*T and cut down to build more too-many-story apartments to accommodate all the filthy, careless humans that we are...
I could go on and on...
1 comment:
Dude I can totally talk about this for awhile too but not as long as you did for a three lined haiku. What I got from it is that he is kind of being sarcastic in saying "What a world!" He kind of is saying that people are loving this world but what we do to it is horrible. We plow a field of Lotus flowers into land that we can use for our own needs. Why destroy beauty when you can use the land you just go done with. This is just my interpretation but good job on your long analysis.
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