1. WHAT IS HAIKU POETRY?

2. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER?

3. HAIKU Traditional Japanese Poetry Consists of 3 lines
Follows the syllable pattern
Has total of 17 syllables
Usually about nature , love
Reflects a moment of time
Usually written in present tense
Usually does not rhyme

4. Example 1 – Kobayashi Issa Let’s read and think…
Everything I touch with tenderness, alas, pricks like a bramble.

5. Example 2 - BASHO MATSUO What do you think this haiku means?
The original Japanese: Furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto
Analysis
Basho also uses his haikus to emphasize human’s smallness in relief to the greatness of nature’s power. The pond is a relic, something that is there and will always be there. The frog represents life and no matter how much he disturbs the water, there is still “Silence” in the end. Humans are but a splash in the ancient history of nature.

6. Example 3 – Natsume Soseki Time to think about this one…
Literary terms and devices: Personification, "winds howl in rage". The writer is giving the wind a voice and emotion. Imagery, "Over the wintry forest,". The writer is making you picture it from a birds eye view. 
The winds howl is his voice, and the rage is his frustration. The writer ends the poem by saying, "with no leaves to blow.". As much as the person yells, there is no one to hear his voice. The blow represents the person’s voice, and the leaves are the non existing people he is trying to share his voice with. 

7. Example 4 – Murakami Kijo What about this one?
Autumn is a season when the brightness and ripeness of summer has passed, when the cold and death of winter lie ahead.  In terms of the "seasons" of human life, autumn is the time when mature adults become aware that youth and the prime of life are behind them, that old age and death lie ahead. On the first day of autumn, the speaker of this poem looks into his mirror and experiences his own metaphorical autumn. He sees that he now looks older. He looks like his father. He is moving away from the springtime of his youth, toward the winter of his death.