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A 9 page paper which compares and contrasts the poetry of Japan and the Western world through the poetry of Monk Ryokan and Robert Burns. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAjpitw.rtf
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times. Poets, although from different places and cultures, utilize this form of expression and this type of literature to offer unique insight into the poets world or the world of
the reader. They can range from simple and short expressions to incredibly long and drawn out epic poems. The following paper examines the poetry of Japan, through the monk Ryokan,
and the poetry of the Western (Scottish) world, through Robert Burns, comparing and contrasting the two. The paper examines each poet and their work separately and then compares and contrasts
the two. Ryokan Ryokan was born in the cold and isolated Chigo (now Nigata) province in the village of Izumozaki. His
father was well off, a merchant and the village elder, who passed on to his son a love of poetry" (Hermitary). It appears as though he was a young child
who adored literature and the quiet ways, involving himself in religious thought as well as poetry (Hermitary). He did not like the idea of going into the same sort of
his business as his father and preferred to move forward to become "a Buddhist monk at the local Zen temple" where he trained with a master for 12 years (Hermitary).
When his master died he began to wander and travel, as a pilgrim (Hermitary). After a few years of traveling it seems that a personal disaster hit him: "[A]t
38, his father died. It is said that at this time he tried to commit suicide by drowning himself in the Katsura River in Kyoto. However, It seems that this
same year, he returned to his birthplace....and by the time he was 47, he apparently had already moved to and been living on Mount Kugami...It is thought that he was
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