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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (21032)	8/9/2001 5:33:47 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

The way it was explained to me - and this is purely anecdotal - was that haiku was originally focused on recitation, ideally impromptu, and that the governing structure actually corresponds more to a particular spoken meter than to the western concept of syllabification. The idea was that the spoken rhythm is more significant than the syllable count. This point of view was communicated to me by several members of the Japanese contingent at a notoriously bohemian local arts festival, at an event at which much alcohol and a number of other substances were circulating. It may for all I know be pure bunk, but I thought it an interesting idea. The question, I guess, involves the extent to which the accepted western definition of a haiku actually corresponds to the original Japanese definition. I suppose we need a serious student of Japanese poetry to weigh in with an opinion, a need which may strain even the notoriously wide span of SI.