tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post4044832961031113226..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Dark Wings of the Night: Elizabeth Searle Lamb's View of Haiku and Her HaikuChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-31759327078394456232013-12-05T10:54:19.125-05:002013-12-05T10:54:19.125-05:00Excerpted from my AHG essay, "Read It Slowly,...Excerpted from my AHG essay, "Read It Slowly, Repeatedly, and Communally:"<br /><br />Unlike modern English-language haiku, "which [are] often monologic, a single voice describing or responding to a scene or experience," 27 the haiku Shuuson wrote was mainly situated in a communal setting and dialogic responses to earlier poems by other poets. "The brevity of the [haiku] is in fact possible because each poem is implicitly part of a massive, communally shared poem." 28<br /><br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-89139137933250630452013-12-04T15:27:29.993-05:002013-12-04T15:27:29.993-05:00Elizabeth Searle Lamb's view of haiku follows ...Elizabeth Searle Lamb's view of haiku follows the spirit of an old HSA haiku definition: 'an unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived, in which nature is linked to human nature.'<br /><br />2003 Definition: A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition.<br /><br />These two definitions say nothing about the two-axis aspect of Japanese haiku.Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com