1st Assingment
A haiku can have more beauty and thought in three short lines than any full length poem has in twenty. To have something so short and so complex, only to be matched by an even more complex pace is truly inspiring.
The haiku presents intense emotion and a vivid images of nature
(THAT are designed to lead) to a spiritual awakening. At first it may seem that having such a short amount written might not give someone much to interpret, but in fact it makes the imagination run wild.
In Matsuo Basho’s
Under Cherry Trees
, he paints a beautiful picture of nature, and being
among it. Basho spent many years traveling through Japan, this haiku could have been torn straight out of his journal, just a moment when he stopped to eat a meal, sitting under a cherry tree watching the petals fall, letting himself be one with his surroundings. With humble simplicity, Basho didn’t need a page to describe an event, his mastery of haiku allowed him to bring his readers into that moment, and reminded us to perceive what was before us, and not to over analyze. Looking at Carolyn Kizer’s
After Basho
, she shows the depth of haiku with the use of metaphors. Kaizer describes the moon taking its evening positon in the sky, pallid, scared, not as notable as the sun that came before, but still well known. In this clever metaphor she describes how a person working in the (shadows) of Matsuo Basho might feel knowing they (would/will) be compared to the best.
Finally, Sonia Sanchez’s c’mon man hold me
, is the most complex of the three haiku
(and) its magnificence lies in its complexity. This haiku has no punctuation, it’s written how someone would speak casually, and the possibilities of its meaning our endless. One could
interpret this haiku as depicting the fleeting nature of time and the last moments we share with someone before we are nothing more than a memory.
Haiku is the most important and beautiful form of poetry due to its complexity and
The haiku presents intense emotion and a vivid images of nature
(THAT are designed to lead) to a spiritual awakening. At first it may seem that having such a short amount written might not give someone much to interpret, but in fact it makes the imagination run wild.
In Matsuo Basho’s
Under Cherry Trees
, he paints a beautiful picture of nature, and being
among it. Basho spent many years traveling through Japan, this haiku could have been torn straight out of his journal, just a moment when he stopped to eat a meal, sitting under a cherry tree watching the petals fall, letting himself be one with his surroundings. With humble simplicity, Basho didn’t need a page to describe an event, his mastery of haiku allowed him to bring his readers into that moment, and reminded us to perceive what was before us, and not to over analyze. Looking at Carolyn Kizer’s
After Basho
, she shows the depth of haiku with the use of metaphors. Kaizer describes the moon taking its evening positon in the sky, pallid, scared, not as notable as the sun that came before, but still well known. In this clever metaphor she describes how a person working in the (shadows) of Matsuo Basho might feel knowing they (would/will) be compared to the best.
Finally, Sonia Sanchez’s c’mon man hold me
, is the most complex of the three haiku
(and) its magnificence lies in its complexity. This haiku has no punctuation, it’s written how someone would speak casually, and the possibilities of its meaning our endless. One could
interpret this haiku as depicting the fleeting nature of time and the last moments we share with someone before we are nothing more than a memory.
Haiku is the most important and beautiful form of poetry due to its complexity and