Subject: R: Seymour's suicide
From: Tania Da Ros (rostania@tin.it)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 10:42:19 GMT
>>Tania Da Ros wrote:
>> "The little girl on the plane/ Who turned her
doll's head around/ To look at me". I never got this poem, really. Could it
have something to do with the above? I have no idea.
>I've always been of the impression that the poem means that
>there was a little girl on the plane, that turned her dolls head
>around to look at him.
:-)
>Haiku- usually- only really reflects a moment of "direct insight"
>into nature or psychology (senryu.) For the most part they are
>supposed to be snapshots and not ripe with symbolism. Seymour
>was more Issa, say, than he was TS Eliot.
I agree. That’s why I didn’t say that I didn’t understand what it really
meant, its symbolism, but rather that I don’t get it, that it doesn’t speak
to me as much as I’d like it to. But that’s me.
>Granted, the poem is not five 7 five haiku and is merely "haiku-like"
>as I recall from Buddy, but nonetheless; it strikes me that Seymour's
>poetry was inspired and based on the same concept of egoless
>observation.
>Also, the poem is not, really, a "suicide note" but merely a haiku
>written as he got off the plane.
You’re right, I apologise.
Tania
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