This poetic form's basic principles were embraced by Imagists such as Ezra Pound, whose "In a Station of the Metro" drew heavily from this poetic form.
Poems in this form are followed by commentary in an anthology called The Seashell Game. This poetic form's basic principles were embraced by Imagists such as Ezra Pound, whose "In a Station of the Metro" drew heavily from this poetic form. A poem in this form describes "the sound of water" made by a frog jumping. This poetic form, which typically contains a "cutting word," arose as the opening of a longer poetic form called the renga. For 10 points, Issa and Basho were masters of what 17-syllable poetic form developed in Japan?
Poems in this form are followed by commentary in an anthology called The Seashell Game.
haiku [accept hokku]