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Tag Archives: Henry David Thoreau
IS HOKKU “NATURE VERSE,” OR “SEASON VERSE,” OR “TIME VERSE”?
I have recently seen the statement made that hokku is not Nature verse — that instead, it is “time verse,” with its foundation in the four seasons. The answer to that, of course, is that hokku is all of the above; … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly, Henry David Thoreau, hokku, nature, season verse, seasons, Shôha, time-verese, Walden Pond, William Cullen Bryant, Zeitgedichte
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SUBTLE STATES OF MIND: THE REASON FOR HOKKU
As all regular readers here know, a hokku is a sensory event set in the context of a particular season. That is basic knowledge. But did you ever ask yourself why? What, after all, is the point of recording sensory, … Continue reading
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Tagged AUTUMN WILLOWS, Ch'an, Henry David Thoreau, hokku, nature, poetry, Ryūshi, seasons, spirituality, Transcendentalism, Wind in the Willows, writing, zen
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TAKING OFF THE WORLD
I have mentioned previously the simple, elegant — one might even say “clean” feeling one gets from the hokku of Onitsura. It is unfortunate that he had no reliable students to carry on his kind of verse. Because of that, … Continue reading
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Tagged change of clothes, Henry David Thoreau, Onitsura, spring, summer, Walden
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RED ON WHITE, CROW ON SNOW
We all know that Shiki was the individual who began the revisionism that has proved so disastrous for hokku — so damaging, in fact, that in the 20th century most people did not even realize that Bashō and all the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashô, crow, haikai, haiku, Henry David Thoreau, hokku, nature, poetry, seasons, Shiki, snow, winter, writing
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ENTERPRISES THAT REQUIRE NEW CLOTHES
The almost frantic desire of contemporary society to drop whatever is perceived as no longer fashionable in favor of whatever is new holds no attraction for writers of hokku, who see such chronic dissatisfaction as just another manifestation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blowing Zen, haikai, haiku, Henry David Thoreau, hokku, nature, poetry, seasons, selflessness, shakuhachi, spirituality, writing, zen
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THE NATURAL APPROACH TO SEASONAL SUBJECTS
In previous postings I have talked about how hokku intimately relates to Nature and the seasons, and I have said that the key to hokku is understanding that it expresses the seasons in its subject matter. Merely setting a hokku … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, harmony, Henry David Thoreau, hokku, nature, poetry, seasons, selflessness, spring, summer, writing, zen
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HOKKU AND WAR
Some people think that verse must concern itself with such things as violence and war, if that is what is happening in the world — and it usually is. Hokku, however, has a higher purpose than importing into itself the chaos … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Carl Gustav Jung, Henry David Thoreau, hokku, poetry, Quakers, violence, W. B. Yeats, war
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