Re: haiku & rilke & seymour?

well, yes. we know jds knew and loved rilke's work.
the first mention of rilke is in 'the stranger' from
1945. and, well, let me stop myself right here.
seymour's doll in his final haiku might/must contain a
reference to rilke's 4th duino elegy. but i just
wonder if jds also remembered that rilke's last words
to the world were cast in a haiku format.

i've always liked the rollcall below. but note that
no haiku poets--or scott fitzergald, for that
matter--are included. hmmm.

1951 is probably too early for the japanese and
chinese poets anyway.

kim

--- Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
wrote:
> "A writer, when he's asked to discuss his craft,
> ought to get up and call out in a loud voice just
> the names of the writers he loves. I love Kafka,
> Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Proust,
> O'Casey, Rilke, Lorca, Keats, Rimbaud, Burns, E.
> Brontë, Jane Austen, Henry James, Blake, Coleridge.
> I won't name any living writers. I don't think it's
> right." -JDS
>
>
> >>> haikux2@yahoo.com 06/23/03 11:04AM >>>
> over the weekend i recalled that the poem rilke
> composed for his gravestone (a year before his
> death)
> is usually called a haiku or haiku-like in the
> literary criticism. (it's three lines, but not
> exactly 17 syllables.) 7 years earlier he wrote a
> poem which he titled 'haiku', again 3 lines, but not
> 5
> 7 5.
>
> (might add that the next to last poem rilke wrote in
> his life was titled 'haiku'. it was in french.
> after
> finishing the elegies and sonnets in 1922, he wrote
> over 400 poems in french; in addition to another 200
> in german.)
>
> i wonder if our jds knew this.
>
> kim
>
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