ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. The haiku developed from the hokku, the opening three lines of a longer poem known as a tanka. The haiku became a separate form of poetry in the 17th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Haiku originated as an opening part of a larger Japanese poem called renga. These haiku written as an opening stanza were known as hokku and over time they began to be written as stand-alone poems. Haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -Of these four, the most famous is Basho. He is credited with making haiku a revered form of poetry. Before Basho refined the haiku poem, its form of 17 syllables had been used, but not with the simplicity and depth of meaning that Basho brought to the form. Basho was born in 1644 in the city of Ueno.

Detailed explanation-4: -Haiku. The best known form of Japanese poetry, haiku is also one of the greatest forms of poetry, alongside the sonnet and the ode. It’s flexible, it’s easy to read, and it’s still going strong hundreds of years after its birth.

Detailed explanation-5: -It had two principal requirements: a seasonal word (kireji) and a “cutting word” or exclamation. The poet Basho infused a new sensibility and sensitivity to this form in the late seventeenth century. He transformed the poetics and turned the hokku into an independent poem, later to be known as haiku.