Sunday, December 03, 2006

Haiku and Shakespeare (11-30)

Schema: SAT

Examine Haiku and its structure. Don’t be fooled into thinking that haiku is simple; many are very complex once you begin to examine them carefully. While the rules of haiku are broken by its masters and those writing in English (because of the differences we discussed in the languages, English word being more broad), I will expect you to know the basic 5-7-5 rule. In Japanese, a haiku is on a single line while in English is the separated into three lines. Remember “hai” means unusual and “ku’ means line, verse or stanza and the inclusion of a reference to the cycle of nature and the year in haiku.

Quiz Monday on Parts of Speech, haiku and Shakespeare.

the concise clear five
and the summer of seven
five ends poets move on

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

MR.LITTLE!!!

i need to talk to you and just wannted to stop by and tell you that the sonnets assignment was a challenge but at the end, it was fun!

Anonymous said...

hey mR.LITTLE!

its...... jus PInk here!

well.... just gotta tell you that the sonnets assignment was difficult at first but at the end, it was really fun!

o yeah, the quiz on monday, on Shakesphere, will that include the form of the sonnets and the reienassance?

..... juS pINk!