1/1/2023 0 Comments Basho Haiku AnalysisActually the word haiku means "play verse."įrom its origin in the play of verses added to successively by multiple authors to itsĬurrent form of a single standalone poem consisting of a three line, seventeen syllable poem With their form, as all artists do variations on the form they are Running the meaning past the end of one segment into the next, playing Haiku poets commonly play with their base of three parts, Not able to get into the spirit of play that the authors infused their verses with. Some English reader called reading a book of haiku like "being pecked toĭeath by doves." Said reader felt attacked by the short choppy verses and was apparently The three forms he is able to discuss the various multiple meanings of each Japanese wordĪnd allow the non-Japanese reader to enter the world of Basho in a way that would else notīe possible. In his commentary that follows each poem, because of You get to see the form of post position in Japanese which is an inversion of what we call inĮnglish pre position or preposition. Translation done word by word from the Japanese original. The first haiku is usually his translation. Now that we're all wet together, let's examine how Aitken dissects the frog ofīasho. Impossible sometimes requires a pilot project first. Think to be adequate today but one he learned a lot from writing. dissertation title, a work he says he doesn't This book is a work of art by that definition - it doesn't seem possible and yet itĮxists. Only in the absolute but at the same time in the world of the necessary For art itself is not altogether possible (it is one of the thingsĪbout it that we prize), and yet it exists, for all that - just as we live not Haiku above I wrote in the margins of page 15 of the book. Well, I not only learned moreĪbout haiku but a lot about the Japanese language and my own language in addition. I thought I knew about haiku before I read this book. To which I would answer poetically: Haiku very much Intention, and implication would, when successful, be fulfilling for the The result would be a long poem of verses linked withĪssociations shared by the participants, and the movement in imagery, The first two lines in poetical intention. Would add another line of seventeen syllables that would be linked to One poet would write a line of seventeen syllables, andĪnother would cap that with a line of fourteen syllables. Historically, haiku developed from renku, the linked verseįorm that was popular among leisure classes in Japan from the earliest What is a haiku and where did it come from? Aitken tells us its origin in the Reminder of New Reviews & New DIGESTWORLD Issues - CLICK Like Us? Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email A Zen Wave - Basho's Haiku & Zen by Robert Aitken, A Spiritual Science Review by Bobby Matherne Site Map: MAIN
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