Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > English

HAIKU

<< < (3/12) > >>

asma alam:
Congratulations Shamsi Madam for your new achievement (for writing haiku). At last your interest in haiku has tempted you to write haiku. I enjoyed.

kulsum:
Drops of monsoon dripping on woods

i would wet i suppose

oh, it was a dream rainbow oppose


Hey All,

i am inspired.....aha....feeling great!
 :) :)

thanx shamsi..thanx all

UK miss

Nahid Kaiser:
We can encourage our students to write Haiku as well. When I was a student at DU we had published a wall magazine on Haiku.

shamsi:
Dear Nahid,

I was also thinking about the idea.Thanks for your inspiration.Yes,we can encourage our students writing Haiku and can plan to have a wall-magazine.But I think,it will need some time.So,we can plan to have it next semester(as I have already made this semester's announcement).Meanwhile,we can teach them how to write it.

Regards

Shamsi

shamsi:
Difference between Japanese Haiku and English language Haiku:

The Japanese haiku and the English language haiku have several critical differences. In Japanese the haiku is composed of 17 sound units divided into three parts - one with 5 units, one with 7 units and another with 5 units. Since sound units are much shorter than English syllables, it has been found that following the Japanese example results in a much longer poem often filled up to make the count with unnecessary words.


The Japanese write their haiku in one line, in order to see clearly the parts of the haiku. In English each part is given a line. This allows the reader time to form an image in the mind before the eyes go back to the left margin for more words. The line breaks also act as a type of punctuation. The kigo, or season word, is a vital part of the Japanese haiku, but in English it is often ignored and not well understood. Therefore, a great number of English haiku do not have a season word and yet are considered to be haiku. The Japanese, because of their longer history of reading haiku, understand that there are two parts to the poem. In English these are called the phrase and fragment. One line is the fragment and the other two lines combine grammatically to become the phrase. Without this combining the two lines together the haiku will sound ‘choppy’ as the voice drops at the end of each line.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page