haiku poetry
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Haiku Poetry. Haiku is also called nature or seasonal haiku. The modern Haiku was fashioned by a Japanese poet in the late 1800s. If you can count syllables, you can write a haiku! This is one of the easiest poems to learn to write. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Haiku is also called nature or seasonal haiku.
The modern Haiku was fashioned by a Japanese poet in
the late 1800s.
If you can count syllables, you can write
a haiku!
This is one of the easiest poems to learn to write.
Haiku poetry does not rhyme and isn’t supposed to have a
title
Haiku is usually written in the
present tense and focuses on nature
(seasons).
Definition 1An unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of
three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all.
The 5/7/5 rule was made up for school children to understand and learn this type
of poetry.
There are three lines in a Haiku
17 syllables altogetherFive – line one
Seven – line two Five – line three
Yesterday I atebreakfast and grabbed my backpackTo hurry to school
Yes/ter/day/I/ateBreak/fast/and/grabbed/my/back/packto/hur/ry/to/school
Pancakes with syrupWinter’s chill delayed awhileThe bus driver honks
Pan/cakes/with/sy/rupWin/ter’s/chill/de/layed/a/whileThe/bus/dri/ver/honks
Helpful Hints
Haiku is generally not written in one long run on sentence. It is generally written in
two parts.
You have a fragment on the first or the last line, then you have the body of the haiku.
Winter sun--a cyclist pedalsagainst the wind
Salt-waves caress sand tickling my toes and
heart in their short-spun wake
Pink cherry blossoms Cast shimmering
reflections On seas of Japan
Warm soup in a bowl letters of the alphabet hang on the teaspoon
On the following slides are pictures of seasons.
Now it is your turn to write some Haiku poetry.