Subject: Re: The Mysterious Seer "Haiku"
Hotspur8@aol.com
Date: Wed Mar 12 1997 - 12:21:10 GMT
In a message dated 97-03-12 07:07:09 EST, you write:
<< I think the key word is Haiku "style". >>
it's very simple.. the "haiku style" is unwavering. there is a very clear
method to construction. i'm sure that our author is aware of that and in
presenting us with a haiku styled poem that isn't in the haiku style, i find
rather strange and wonder what the intention might have been--
to understand the poetry of the far east is to know that there is no
waivering when it it comes to the "style"-- it's perameters have been set for
centuries and the challenge and art of construction lies within the formula
of it's creation... we're presented with the fact that seymour attempts
throughout his life to practice an eastern approach to his daily lifestyle
and in that time he studied the eastern practice of haiku poetry. we're
never actually shown any of his (one hundred and eighty-four) collected poems
---except for maybe one (the john keats) and then two short summaries of
Buddy's favorites, which are at the end of Seymour's notebook/diary.--
my question remains that the final Haiku-"styled" poem that we are left with
isn't a haiku at all and would probably be laughed at by the centuries of far
eastern haiku poets that had always followed the parameters for
construction...
does this possibly point to a weakness in Seymour's ability to adapt from a
western lifestyle into a fully aware-- or rather, enlightened approach to not
only his life (ultimately blowing his brains all over the baseboard of his
single, depending on the trajectory) and his art (a failed attempt at his
final Haiku-style "death poem'-- if it could conceivably be realized as such
considering he was probably aware that he was about to end the present life
he was experiencing...) just wondering what gives.
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