This is an appreciation I found, and I think it is not bad ~ ~
Living is a basic theme in Tanigawa's poems. In this collection of poems, there are two poems that directly concern about life, and this is one of them. As we all know, Japan is a nation with a high suicide rate, not only in Asia, but also in the world. The love for the cherry blossoms that once withered cleanly, the admiration for the Bushido spirit, their intolerance and desire for transcendence, and the shadow of the atomic bomb explosion and the failure of the war all invisibly influenced the Japanese views on death and life and death.
However, in this poem, "being alive" is repeatedly recited and almost becomes a belief. "Lily kept me alive in June/dead fish kept me alive/puppy wet by rain/sunset glow kept me alive that day ..." Lily, fish, puppy and sunset glow, things from nature and around, even "faces suddenly looking back", all brought endless warm and painful memories to the poet, because they entered the poet's life and witnessed human survival and life. "Unforgettable memories keep me alive", even "death" keeps me alive.
As a poet who was born and stood up on the ruins of the atomic bomb (which can't destroy everything), Tanigawa has a unique and profound sense of life. He loves life, and the tragedy of life did not make the poet lose his feeling and belief in life. In another poem entitled "To be alive", the poet wrote: "To be alive/to be alive now ... means that people are in love/your hands are warm/live". Live because of "love", because of "blind", "distorted", unfamiliar but unforgettable love. Living is a feeling of life and an eulogy of life.