[alt.usage.english] Re: More haiku

[Fabian]

Subject: Re: More haiku
From: Earle D Jones <earle...@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
In article <Xns9086825FB...@130.133.1.4>, man...@flash.net
(Joe Manfre) wrote:

> iwasaki (piano...@mtg.biglobe.ne.jp) wrote:
>
> >Mike Lyle <Mike_...@newsranger.com> wrote in message
> >news:W8DC6.7553$FY5.6...@www.newsranger.com...
> >>
> >> Are these not rather senryu than haiku? We have experts at hand, I
> >> know.
> >
> >I'm not an expert, but Japanese haiku requires the word that
> >suggests the season. "Senryu" is a witty epigrammatic poem
> >containing seventeen syllables like haiku, but no need of the
> >season word. I don't know if there exists such classification in
> >English haiku.
>
> I doubt the existence of "English haiku", really. Any so-called
> "haiku" written in English is probably the product of some lame-
> brained nitwit who thinks it's really really funny to rewrite
> perfectly normal sentences so as to create the proper arrangement
> of syllables for a "haiku" and then say "HA HA HA, IT'S A HAIKU,
> LOOK, I MADE A HAIKU, HA HA HA HA HA!! HAIKUS ARE FUNNY!! HA!
> HA! HA!"
>
> I do wish they'd turn their attention to some other form of
> poetry. Maybe limericks or sonnets or something. The "look,
> it's a haiku!" joke is so played out.
>
>
> JM

*
Your posting above
A strangely hostile comment --
Fuck you. It's Springtime.

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