ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

ASIAN LITERATURE

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Regarded as the greatest haiku poet.
A
Yosa Buson
B
Koyabashi Issa
C
Matsuo Basho
D
Ryunusuke Akutagawa
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), is Japan’s most famous poet, certainly its most famous haiku poet. He was historically important in developing the form during the Genroku Period, the high point of the Japanese Renaissance, which has so much in common with the Elizabethan Period in England, which came just 100 years earlier.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bashō is usually credited as the most influential haiku poet and the writer who popularized the form in the 17th century. Outside Japan, Imagist writers such as Ezra Pound and T.E. Hulme wrote haiku in English.

Detailed explanation-3: -Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) made about 1000 haiku poems through the lifetime, traveling around Japan. His writing “The Narrow Road to the Deep North ” is the most famous haiku collection in Japan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) made about 1000 haiku poems in his lifetime with the jouney around Japan. His writing “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” is the most famous haiku collection in Japan.

Detailed explanation-5: -Basho, drawing on his own studies of Zen Buddhism, revolutionized haiku by crafting poems that focused on microscopic scenes from everyday life that touched upon enormous truths.

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