The Inescapable Seasons of Life: Expressing the Modern Soul in an Ancient Poetic Style - Couverture souple

Inoue-Smith, Yukiko

 
9786137385593: The Inescapable Seasons of Life: Expressing the Modern Soul in an Ancient Poetic Style
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 6137385590 ISBN 13 : 9786137385593
Editeur : JustFiction Edition, 2018

Synopsis

Compared to haiku, Japan’s oldest poetry genre called “tanka” (or “waka” traditionally) is not so familiar with people in the United States or rest of the world. In recent decades, however, tanka is becoming increasingly popular among Western readers, presumably because they recognize that this poetic style provides an ideal format and length for expressing their emotions. Tanka poems written in Japanese are tiny verses of thirty-one syllables in one straight line. But, in English and other languages, it is often written using five lines. For an English language tanka, requirements are not so strict. The challenge is how to use a few words effectively: exactness and concrete image are essential elements of composing tanka. More than in haiku, tanka requires a sense of verbal rhythm and musical flow which encounters in English poems. Finally, tanka conveys its meaning or a feeling by implication, in symbols, or by allusion. This is “yojo”— the soul of tanka.

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Éditeur
JustFiction Edition
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
6137385590
ISBN 13 
9786137385593
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
132
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