Japanese Poetry

Poetry and Poetic Forms

An immediate, easy-to-recognize example of a haiku is: "An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond— / Splash! Silence again." This three-line poem follows the traditional...

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Poetry & Poetics

A haiku is a short form of poetry that originated in Japan, traditionally composed in three lines with a 5–7–5 pattern of sounds in the original Japanese. In English, the te...

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