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Master Basho’s Spirit

SELF STUDY STUDENTS - Page 1

Follow the instructions in the following lesson and work through the examples. The icons used to help guide you through the activities are:


READ

WRITE

THINK

CRITICAL
REFLECTION
AIMS

In this first lesson you will be introduced to

» what the haiku is and its special spirit
» a number of examples by Japanese masters of the form and some Western ones
» studying structural features of poems and making interpretative judgements about them, and
» writing your first poems

By the end of the lesson, you should have written some of your own poems, and, more importantly, they should be poems that are truly in the spirit of haiku, not just seventeen-syllable thoughts or jokes.

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