A Quick Lesson On Haiku
Posted on March 1, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment
A quick lesson on Haiku:
Haiku…three unrhymed lines…5-7-5 syllables…describes scenes in nature.
Senryu…same pattern as haiku…not about the natural world, but about human nature.
Tanka…a five line cousin of haiku…2-3-2-3-3
Cinquain…22 syllables…2-4-6-8-2
The history and definition of HAIKU:
Haiku is a mode of Japanese poetry, the late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku, the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga. The traditional hokku consisted of a pattern of approximately 5, 7, 5 on. The Japanese word on, meaning “sound”, corresponds to a mora, a phonetic unit similar but not identical to the syllable of a language such as English. (The words onji, (”sound symbol”) or moji (character symbol) are also sometimes used.) A haiku contains a special season word (the kigo) representative of the season in which the renga is set, or a reference to the natural world.
Haiku usually combines three different phrases, with a distinct grammatical break, called kireji, usually placed at the end of either the first five or second seven morae. In Japanese, there are actual kireji words. In English, kireji is often replaced with commas, hyphens, elipses, or implied breaks in the haiku. These elements of the older haiku are considered by many to be essential to haiku as well, although they are not always included by modern writers of Japanese “free-form haiku” and of non-Japanese haiku. Japanese haiku are typically written as a single line, while English language haiku are traditionally separated into three lines.
In Japanese, nouns do not have different singular and plural forms, so ‘haiku’ is usually used as both a singular and plural noun in English as well.
Senryu is a similar poetry form that emphasizes humor and human foibles instead of seasons, and which may not have kigo or kireji.
Here are a few samples:
Words as an art form
the lure of the underground
mystery within
© Aesthete2000
how often, really
can the simple things matter?
always, millions, now
© ahhyeah
Future President
Prefer one with a backbone
Only time will tell
© MotownTerri
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