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On this particular March day inTheodore Facepaint, who was nine years old, agreed to do a parody. With hand balanced on hip and the left leg slightly in front of the right, my newly found friend positioned himself on Sand Hill before turning to face the hazy afternoon sun.

Those who approach haiku primarily as poetry will feel that various common techniques of English poetry alliteration, assonance, enjambment, rhythm, melody have a part to play, though none of these should attract too much attention to itself.

Even rhyme may occasionally be used without detriment to taste, but it tends to glare. Titles as such are avoided — they may compromise the open-endedness and brevity, narrowing the context whilst lengthening the poem.

The use of similes is frequently questioned, but implied similes are not uncommon. Haiku poets can expect criticism and the need to plead a special case if they use like or as … as.

The less punctuation, the better, seems to be a general view. Experiments with lay-out are justified, but like other things, current taste rules out anything too ostentatious.

Structure is important in haiku, but in a stress-timed language like English it cannot be reduced to a simple matter of counting syllables. In Japanese, long vowels count as two and the letter n on its own as one.

Some regard the form of 17 syllables divided as sacrosanct, as if it had some indefinable poetic or spiritual justification, or was ordained by literary history.

The fact is, the form derives from nothing more mysterious than inbred Japanese phrasing, found in statements as unpoetic as police notices and TV commercials. In Japanese, the pattern is inherently mellifluous and consequently easy to remember. But even in Japan there is a growing proportion of haiku written in other than 17 syllables usually less.

Poets writing in English have to find an equivalent that suits the natural cadences of their own tongue. This may, on occasion, turn out to be syllables.

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The majority of those who write haiku in English have come to feel that a haiku length of less than 17 syllables, with something like 6 or 7 beats overall, typically in three phrases with the middle line a little longer than the other two i.

Senryu Senryu are superficially similar to haiku, but do not employ season words or aim at seasonal feeling. The tendency is towards a single observation rather than juxtaposition, and an avoidance of ambiguity.

Senryu is also more detached than haiku; for this reason, use of first person is far less common. The focus of senryu is on human behaviour — actions, rather than things.

Without generalising in an overt way, they pinpoint our foibles and fallibilities in an ironic or satirical sort of way. We are shown how absurd we are all liable to be. Shut up the house carefully before you go to bed he repeats, going off to burgle.read poems by edgar allan poe On January 19, , Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Poe's father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. Trudier Harris is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

During , she was a resident Fellow at the National Humanities Center. She has written and edited more than a dozen books on African American literature and folklore. Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, ) is a Laguna Pueblo writer and one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance..

Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in and the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas . The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.

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Modern and Contemporary Poets of Christian Faith. The following is a partial list of twentieth-century poets who write in some way about their Christian faith.