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Mokichi Saitō

Mokichi Saitō was a Japanese poet of the Taishō period. Born May 14, 1882 in the farming village of Kanakame in the Yamagata prefecture, Saitō was the third of five children. At the age of fourteen, he was sent to live

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As I lie beside my mother

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

William Blake was arrested and put on trial. What was his crime?

Answer

Blake was arrested for making seditious utterances and "damning the king," while he was ejecting a drunken soldier from his garden. Blake was eventually acquitted, but he carried the sense of being persecuted into his later works.

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