Now giving lecture on Japanese poetry. First giving very old Japanese poem, very classical:
Oh willow tree,
Why are you so sad, willow tree?
Maybe baby?
Now giving nineteenth-century romantic Japanese poem:
Oh bird, sitting on willow tree,
Why are you
so sad, bird?
Maybe baby?
Now giving up-to-minute twentieth-century Japanese poem, very modern:
Oh stream, flowing past willow tree,
Why are you so sad, stream?
Baby?
herog
her (I) og
her (II) og
her (III) og
her (IV).