这是一道考试题。老师出示诗歌，学生回答诗歌的作者和题目是什么，然后分析诗歌。在我看来，这首诗很直白，充分符合日本诗歌的特点：simple, indirect, emotional。 我感觉没有太多的分析空间。但为了应付考试，我只好假装分析一下。嗯，老师挺满意，这道题我得了满分。日本人名被翻译成英文后，超过一寸长！

I stood at the Karu marker

where often she had gone,

and listened,

but could not even hear

the voices of the birds

that cry on Unebi Mountain…

I could do nothing

but call my wife’s name

And wave my sleeves.

Title:    Poem by Kakinomoto Hitomaro as He Shed Tears of Blood in His Grief Following the Death of His Wife

Author: Kakinomoto Hitomaro

Significance:

This poem creates a strong emotion for a husband (poet) who misses his wife very much after her death.  He goes to the market, a place where his wife often goes when she is alive, to recall the old days. But since his wife is dead and he cannot find her trace here. He is so attached to his wife that he even ignores the bird cries. His waving sleeves creates an lonely  and empty image, which makes readers sense how sad the husband is.