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My house is a decayed house.
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And the poem goes on, and this is the tone of a poem.
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It's a poem of crisis,
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a poem of a kind of hollow speaker,
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someone who emerges as, more or less, buried alive.
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And this is supposed to reflect both personal crisis and a historical crisis.
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And it comes to a moment where the possibility of rejuvenation
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is described as devoured by a series of caricatures of Europeans,
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and that's this second part on your handout,
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the people that devour rejuvenation.
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So: By Hakagawa,
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bowing among the Titians;