Meaning in Haiku

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Title

Meaning in Haiku

Subject

Haiku--evaluation

Description

In this essay, Charles Trumbull surveys many of the various ways, some inadmissible, for getting meaning into haiku, and illustrates his points with illuminating examples. He ends with a brief discussion of modern haiku, the so-called gendai haiku, which tend to dismiss the importance of meaning.

Creator

Trumbull, Charles

Publisher

Published in Frogpond 35:3 (autumn 2012), 92–118.
An earlier version was read at the Seabeck Haiku Retreat, Seabeck, Washington, November 2010

Date

2012

Rights

All rights reserved.

This essay appears here with the kind permission of the author.

Format

pdf

Language

eng

Type

article