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Old 05-10-2008, 05:39 PM
Kouten Kouten is offline
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Re: Tree Haiku

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Originally Posted by icehockeygoalie View Post
No matter how hard you try, there are only several million different ways for meaning to appear in a haiku. Even less so if it is about, or features, nature or seasons.
A haiku concerns nature. A sonnet concerns love. This is simply the subject of each type of poem, and both are very broad ideas. In this sense, a haiku isn't limited any more than a sonnet is, simply by its focus.


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Originally Posted by icehockeygoalie
Plus, it's longer, which is always better.
Not always. Length does contribute to the range of possibilities but only slightly, really. Besides: a good poet can fit more meaning and emotion into a three-line poem than a poor poet can in a 50-line poem.
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