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[川生]

Poetic Appropriation (Haiku)



Poets contemplate the frog --
images, metaphors, and allusions
are reworked in inspiration.


Note:

This is a piece of playful writing.
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Lines go off in all directions.

[[川生]]

Poetic Appropriation (Haiku)



Poets contemplate the frog --
images, metaphors, and allusions
are reworked in inspiration.


Note:

This is a piece of playful writing.
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Lines go off in all directions.

[Lake]

Frog meditates
over a foggy pond –
splish or splash?

[[Lake]]

Frog meditates
over a foggy pond –
splish or splash?

[ericcoliu]

[quote="川生"]Poetic Plagiarism (Haiku)



Poets contemplate the frog --
images, metaphors, and allusions
are stolen in inspiration.

IMHO, this is a bad word choice.

“If a haiku is a good one, it doesn’t matter if the subject has been used before. The writing of variations on certain subjects in haiku, sometimes using the same or similar phrases (or even changing a few words of a previous haiku), is one of the most interesting challenge the genre offers a poet and can result in refreshingly different ways of “seeing anew” for the reader. This is an aspect of traditional Japanese haiku which is hard for many Westerns, with their ideas of uniqueness and Romantic individualism, to accept. But some of the most original voices in haiku do not hesitate to dare seeming derivative if they see a way of reworking an “old” image.”

-- The opening paragraph of ‘A Note on the Selection and Layout of the Poems’ to The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor van den Heuvel

Poems rise not so much in response to present time, as even Rilke thought, but in response to other poems.

-- The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom

Every creative imitation mingles filial rejection with respect, just as every parody pay its own oblique homage.

-- The Light in Troy by Thomas Greene
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[[ericcoliu]]

[quote="川生"]Poetic Plagiarism (Haiku)



Poets contemplate the frog --
images, metaphors, and allusions
are stolen in inspiration.

IMHO, this is a bad word choice.

“If a haiku is a good one, it doesn’t matter if the subject has been used before. The writing of variations on certain subjects in haiku, sometimes using the same or similar phrases (or even changing a few words of a previous haiku), is one of the most interesting challenge the genre offers a poet and can result in refreshingly different ways of “seeing anew” for the reader. This is an aspect of traditional Japanese haiku which is hard for many Westerns, with their ideas of uniqueness and Romantic individualism, to accept. But some of the most original voices in haiku do not hesitate to dare seeming derivative if they see a way of reworking an “old” image.”

-- The opening paragraph of ‘A Note on the Selection and Layout of the Poems’ to The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor van den Heuvel

Poems rise not so much in response to present time, as even Rilke thought, but in response to other poems.

-- The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom

Every creative imitation mingles filial rejection with respect, just as every parody pay its own oblique homage.

-- The Light in Troy by Thomas Greene
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[clair]

[quote="ericcoliu"]

[[clair]]

[quote="ericcoliu"]

[浴恩福]

[[浴恩福]]

[ericcoliu]

[[ericcoliu]]

[christine]

[[christine]]

[ericcoliu]

[[ericcoliu]]

[川生]

Thank you all for your thoughtful comments. Many thanks to ericcoliu and Christine.

I've made some revisions to my haiku, which is really intended to be a playful piece of writing.
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Lines go off in all directions.

[[川生]]

Thank you all for your thoughtful comments. Many thanks to ericcoliu and Christine.

I've made some revisions to my haiku, which is really intended to be a playful piece of writing.
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Lines go off in all directions.

[agincourt]

[[agincourt]]

[川生]

Glad you like my revision.

Thanks for the read.
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Lines go off in all directions.

[[川生]]

Glad you like my revision.

Thanks for the read.
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Lines go off in all directions.

[川生]

Below is a fabulous case which supports my view of "poetic appropriation".

[[川生]]

Below is a fabulous case which supports my view of "poetic appropriation".