Monday, February 10, 2014

answer of Mr Figaro [not real name]

I let my students decipher or fugure (typo) out the title of the poem. It is a Korean type of poem under the genre of sijo [pronounced, sidzou]   The Tree of Unhappiness by Kim Sang-yong and translated by Graeme Wilson]

I yada the words, I say the piece, I speak and they open their minds and imagine.

                     On broad leaves of pau-low-nia
                     The one and only tree
                     Whereon the phoenix will set foot....
                     

My students have interesting answers:

  1.  Tree of Life
  2.   Love
  3.   Tree of Poetry
  4.   Tree of Broad
  5.   God (answer of Peter)
  6.  Life, the tree has many memories

The best answer: Tree of Mr. Jabines


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