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... haiku - writing . The briefer the form , the more difficult to translate . Our haiku imitators are not much better nor worse than our imitation Romantics . Yet we have a handful of certifiably great haiku from recent years , just as we ...
... haiku - writing . The briefer the form , the more difficult to translate . Our haiku imitators are not much better nor worse than our imitation Romantics . Yet we have a handful of certifiably great haiku from recent years , just as we ...
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... haiku . But the heart and soul of this little book , its kokoro , cannot be found simply by defining form . Bashō completely redefined haiku , he transformed haibun . But these accomplish- ments grew out of arduous studies in poetry ...
... haiku . But the heart and soul of this little book , its kokoro , cannot be found simply by defining form . Bashō completely redefined haiku , he transformed haibun . But these accomplish- ments grew out of arduous studies in poetry ...
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... haiku carried within it the sort of resonance he sought . The grasses with their plethora of associations , the ghosts of Hidehira , Yoritomo , and Yoshitsune , an allusion drawn from a famous Noh drama - Bashō framed his verse with ...
... haiku carried within it the sort of resonance he sought . The grasses with their plethora of associations , the ghosts of Hidehira , Yoritomo , and Yoshitsune , an allusion drawn from a famous Noh drama - Bashō framed his verse with ...
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