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Temporal persistence of emotion in waka and classical Chinese poetics: A comparative study of poem on “A Promise Carried Through Time” and “Toki Koyuru Chigai”
Authors
Wasantha Samarathunga
Abstract
This research paper
examines how emotion persists across time through a comparative analysis of two
original poems modeled on Classical Chinese regulated verse and Japanese waka.
Emotional continuity is considered as a structural effect of the epistemologies
of poetic form. Temporality theory provides insights into how each form
represents time and intercultural hermeneutics explores how meaning is produced
by the meeting of two distinct aesthetic systems. The waka‑based poem sustains
emotion through atmospheric suggestion and cyclical temporality. The Chinese
style poem sustains emotion through metaphysical causality and linear continuity.
Affect theory further explains how each form circulates feeling according to
its internal logic. The findings contribute to global lyric studies by showing
how poetic structures generate emotional meaning across temporal frames.
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Pages:163-165
How to cite this article:
Wasantha Samarathunga "Temporal persistence of emotion in waka and classical Chinese poetics: A comparative study of poem on “A Promise Carried Through Time” and “Toki Koyuru Chigai”". International Journal of Research in All Subject, Vol 2, Issue 1, 2026, Pages 163-165
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