Subject: Re: Haiku, wakas et al..
Hotspur8@aol.com
Date: Thu Mar 13 1997 - 03:38:40 GMT
Thanks Sundeep. definitely something to take into consideration.
In a message dated 97-03-12 15:54:38 EST, Sundeep writes:
<< I do remember being pretty worked up
about the 5-7-5 structure myself till it dawned on me that the _Haikus_ I
was reading supposedly by Basho are actually
translations, and that's why not necessarily even in the 17-syllable
form.
(Japanese is highly polysyllabic, and translations therefore end up using
a lot more Latinized words, which are generally less sympathetic than the
Anglo-Saxon...)
The strict discipline of structure and form therefore is difficult to
achieve in English and since I can't seem to find my copy of RHTRB & SAI,
I am not sure whether Seymour's "Haiku"s are in fact claimed to be
translations from Japanese or written in English itself (Seymour, among
other things, is meant to be multilingual too, remember?) >>
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