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Famous examples of epic poetry include the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, the ancient Indian Mahabharata and Rāmāyaṇa in Sanskrit and Silappatikaram and Manimekalai in Tamil, the Persian Shahnameh, the Ancient Greek Odyssey and Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, the Old English Beowulf, Dante's Divine Comedy, the Finnish Kalevala, the German ...
Haiku. Haiku ( 俳句, listen ⓘ) is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 phonetic units (called on in Japanese, which are similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; [1] that include a kireji, or "cutting word"; [2] and a kigo, or seasonal reference.
Cherry blossoms ( sakura ), often simply called blossoms ( hana) are a common spring kigo. A kigo (季語, 'season word') is a word or phrase associated with a particular season, used in traditional forms of Japanese poetry. Kigo are used in the collaborative linked-verse forms renga and renku, as well as in haiku, to indicate the season ...
Kireji (切れ字, lit. "cutting word") are a special category of words used in certain types of Japanese traditional poetry. It is regarded as a requirement in traditional haiku, as well as in the hokku, or opening verse, of both classical renga and its derivative renku (haikai no renga). There is no exact equivalent of kireji in English, and ...
In a Station of the Metro" is an early work of Modernist poetry as it attempts to "break from the pentameter", incorporates the use of visual spacing as a poetic device, and does not contain any verbs. [3] The work originally appeared with different spacing between the groups of words. This can be found in the on-line version of Poetry magazine ...
While recovering from an illness in 1921, he came across the haiku literary magazine Hototogisu. Later, he joined Shippo-kai, a haiku circle predominantly for Noh actors and began to study haiku under the famed poet Takahama Kyoshi. At around the age of 20, Matsumoto abandoned the idea of becoming a Noh actor because of his ongoing health ...
An epic catalogue is a long, detailed list of objects, places or people that is a characteristic of epic poetry. Examples. In the Iliad: Catalogue of Ships, the most famous epic catalogue; Trojan Battle Order; In the Odyssey, the catalogue of women in Hades in Book XI. In the Argonautica, the catalogue of heroes in Book I.
The Seashell Game. The Seashell Game (貝おほひ, Kai Ōi) is a 1672 anthology compiled by Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, in which each haiku is followed by critical commentary he made as referee for a haiku contest. [1] It is Bashō's earliest known book, and the only book he published in his own name.