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American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
Haiku in English
Milorad Ivanković, ”Haiku in English”. American Research Journal of English and Literature, vol 6, no.
1, 2020, pp. 1-10.
Abstract
It seems that today everybody writes haiku. Haiku has become a global phenomenon. It seems to
be the most democratic means of artistic expression accessible to people worldwide as it has no restriction of
race, faith, ideology, etc. Haiku poetry is comparable to Naïve art viz. by ignoring the so-called rules is essential
for the art to be considered naive, and being more accessible to everyone with no necessity for institutional
learning due to its short form and its relationship with the world of nature which most of the men, women
and even children are intimately related to. However, the form of haiku prevailing today rarely represents the
authentic zen form of haiku, but is rather composed in a wide variety of forms, as one-liner, three-liner, four
liner and even minimalistic style of verse.
