Thursday, August 26, 2021

Poetic Musings: "For Sale" Found Haiku by Ernest Hemingway

For sale:
baby shoes,
never worn.

Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak, 2009

Ernest Hemingway

Commentary: L1 sets the theme of Hemingway's six-word story/found haiku while unexpected yet curious L3 unlocks the reader's imagination, and invites the reader to cooperate in the construction of the larger narrative that is obliquely limned by these six words, which might imply miscarriage or sudden infant death. In its terseness, the six-word story/found haiku is a perfect encapsulation of Hemingway's economic writing style. And each word in his found haiku is chosen to unlock a world of the evoked sensation in the reader. 

When a writer composes a haiku, it’s only half finished. The reader is co-creator, and his or her reading can carry the poem out beyond the page and make it almost a new poem altogether. -- Aubrie Cox 

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