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Poets with tag Haiku:

Haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry. It is typically characterised by three qualities:

The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.

Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae though often loosely translated as "syllables"), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on respectively.

A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words.

Modern Japanese haiku (現代俳句 gendai-haiku?) are increasingly unlikely to follow the tradition of 17 on or to take nature as their subject, but the use of juxtaposition continues to be honored in both traditional and modern haiku. There is a common, although relatively recent, perception that the images juxtaposed must be directly observed everyday objects or occurrences.

In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku.

Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Matsuo Basho	1644-1694	JAP	Beat, Haiku, Imagism	110	86
Yosa Buson	1716-1784	JAP	Haiku	39	227
Kobayashi Issa	1763-1827	JAP	Haiku	54	305
Rabindranath Tagore	1861-1941	IND	Contextual modernism, Freemasons, Haiku, Romanticism, Spiritualism	242	17
Antonio Machado	1875-1939	SPA	Haiku, Social realism	13	119
Ezra Pound	1885-1972	USA	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Haiku, Imagism, Modernism, Others	253	70
Paul Eluard	1895-1952	FRA	Surrealism, Haiku, Dada	56	268
Federico Garcia Lorca	1898-1936	SPA	Freemasons, Haiku, Homoerotism, Modernism, National, Surrealism	47	50
Jorge Luis Borges	1899-1986	ARG	Agnosticism, Fantasy, Haiku, National, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Symbolism, Vernacular	17	149
Czeslaw Milosz	1911-2004	POL	Haiku, Naive	39	127
Octavio Paz	1914-1998	MEX	Existentialism, Haiku, National, Surrealism	17	104

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