LJOM #6: Deconstructing Matsuo Basho's Frog Haiku
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- In today's lesson we will learn a few basics on haikus, by analyzing the most famous of them all, Matsuo Basho's frog haiku. If you have any questions feel free to ask!
Enjoyed your video. Here is my haiku tribute to Bashō,s frog poem with commentary by the late Jane Reichold who also considered my poem among her top 10 haiku of all time. I was humbled and honored.
Bashō,s frog
four hundred years
of ripples
“At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the
sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water".
As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain”.
- -Jane Reichhold
All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida
-Al
Thanks for giving me ways to appreciate the beauty and completenss of simplicity. Poetry in it's finest mode.
I need the meaning of each line of Matsuo Basho's Frog Haiku for a project. Can you tell me what it is?
off couse master piece.He only wrote that a frog jumped into the pond. It seems like a very simple poem.but the fact that he could hear the sound of a small frog(kawazu is small)jumping into the water. tells the reader that the place was very quiet.This poem's subject is "silence".However, this poem doesn`t have the words "silence"or "quiet".The subjects is hiding.Diference between the Westan and the Japan.Western artists expressions try to do everything perfectly.They try to express everything.However Japanese art expression isn`t like this.Japanese art isn`t mirror of the world. it`s a sign of the feeling in the world.This is similar to throwing stones in water to make rings spread on the surface.Western artists try to draw the water itself completely.But Japanese artists throw a small stone in the water.The ripples spread, and the audience realizes that there is the water sulface.
sorry my poor Eng. from Japan.
TETSURO RYUZAKI great English, great comment. Thank you!
You’re welcome
I can feel that ancient Silence in this master piece. Thanks 🙏
Wow, you explained it so beautifully. :)