Haiku texts as the innovation means of learning/teaching foreign language

Abstract

Haiku is a genre of traditional Japanese lyric poetry that has been around since the 16th century. This poetry, then called hokku, emerged as an independent genre in the 16th century. The modern name was suggested in the 19th century by the poet Masaoka Shiki. The poet who writes haiku is called haijin. One of the most famous representatives of the genre was and still is Matsuo Basho. The original Japanese haiku is made up of 17 syllables in one column of characters. Besides, haiku is divided in a ratio of 12: 5 (either on the fifth syllable or on the twelfth). When translating haiku, a three-line poem is accepted. In classical haiku, natural image is in the central part, explicitly or implicitly correlated with the image of a person. Haiku is written only in the present tense: the author writes down his immediate feelings. Usually haiku has no title and no rhyme. It is a real art to describe in three lines the moment where every word is weighty and significant.