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The Perspective Of Hokusai

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The great wave surges from the left. The image is frozen as the great tower of water crests. Slicing the mountainous sea, three fishing boats in motion from the right, are threatened with inundation when the wall of water must fall upon them as the wave breaks.

On the far horizon the snow-capped peak of Mont Fuji can be seen, tiny, against the momentary bulk of the wave. Yet and boats are necessarily transient. The foreground is full of the challenge of survival, a moment in the struggle that passes fast into oblivion. The mountain, that appears so small, is wrapped in its motionless tranquillity, its snow mantle dazzles the eye.


Close to, the great wave
obscures the world. Far away
the snow capped peak sleeps.
This is my entry to *ladyrapid's Perspective contest,

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The subject of the poem is The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, one of Hokusai's Thirty Six Views Of Mount Fuji.
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EmmaSloane's avatar
Yours makes it Thirty Seven...