I do not mean only the use of natural imagery; I mean much more the use of parallelism to reinforce that imagery.

That is the thing especially worthy of literary study.

Indeed, I think that such study might greatly help towards a new development, a totally new departure in Japanese verse.
In another lecture I spoke as sincerely as I could of the very high merit in the epigrammatic forms of Japanese poetry.

These brief forms of poetry have been developed in Japan to perfection not equalled elsewhere in modern poetry, perhaps not surpassed, in some respects, even by Greek poetry of the same kind.

But there can be no doubt of this fact, that a national literature requires many other forms of expression than the epigrammatic form.