Matsuo Basho

Tremble Oh My Gravemound

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Tremble Oh My Gravemound - meaning Summary

Autumn Wind as Elegy

This short poem presents a speaker confronting mortality and the erasure of personal grief. The speaker imagines their gravesite trembling now but foresees that later their pleas will be absorbed into the persistent autumn wind. The lines compress loss and the natural cycle, suggesting that individual suffering will be transmuted into seasonal sound. It reads as a quiet, elegiac acceptance of impermanence and fading remembrance.

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Tremble, oh my gravemound, in time my cries will be only this autumn wind

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