I believe that it can, and that a greater Longfellow would have brought such results into existence long ago.

Of course, the form is primitive; it does not follow that an English poet or a Japanese poet should attempt only a return to primitive methods of poetry in detail.

The detail is of small moment; the spirit is everything.

Parallelism means simply the wish to present the same idea under a variety of aspects, instead of attempting to put it forward in one aspect only.

Everything great in the way of thought, everything beautiful in the way of idea, has many sides.