Haiku and Grammar

Haiku reflects human nature and is supposed to be an intuitive experience. A persons feelings should be directly connected to the haiku.

The phrase structure is the most important in haiku grammar.

Most people think that the universal structure of a haiku is the 5-7-5 form. It's grounded on the prosodic grammatical nature of Japanese language. It's a Pythagorian misconception that the numerology is real.

The form of the haiku depends on the nature of the phrase construction of the language in which the haiku is written.

The haiku structure is geared towards expressing feelings and not to explain logical concepts.

Beacause the seasons in Japan are different from the western seasons, the feelings expressed about them are going to be different than if someone who lived in the west had written them.

A sentence has a propositional structure and by breaking that structure down in haiku, the poem becomes even more abstract and intellectual, which is not what a haiku should be.

There are three modes of being, Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. Firstness is the quality of feeling or suchness. It's a positive qualitative possibility. Secondness is the being of actual fact; like what's happening then and there. Thirdness is the being of law that will govern facts in the future.



Did you read anything in the article that you didn't know about haiku's before? Did reading this article make you want to try writing a haiku?

P.S. Here's a "grammar haiku"!