tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post2991510011549111594..comments2024-03-27T11:10:57.384-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: Fog Haiku by Larry KimmelChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-66364217280400855912015-09-17T10:41:08.531-04:002015-09-17T10:41:08.531-04:00Larry's haiku is a well-crafted "ichibuts...Larry's haiku is a well-crafted "ichibutsu shitate" ("one-topic" poem) , which [focuses] on a single topic and in which the hokku [flows] smoothly from start to finish, without the leap or gap found in the composition poem" ("Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho," p. 111), and on a second reading, its riveting image adds symbolic weight and psychological depth to the poem.<br /><br />For more info. about ichibutsu shitate, see "To the Lighthouse: Ichibutsu Shitate (One-Image/Object/Topic Haiku)," http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/2015/01/to-lighthouse-ichibutsu-shitate-one.html <br /><br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com