Haiku Poems

Goal: Students will analyze poetry Students will interpret and make conclusions about the meanings and structure of the poems
Students will be introduced to different structures/ formats of poetry: sonnet, haiku

Bell Ringer:
What is a Haiku

IV. The Haiku

Meet the Authors:

Basho- Most famous of the Japanese haiku poets.
-Believed that a poet must express the essential nature of an object

Issa- Favorite haiku poet
-led a life of hardship and personal loss
-Lived in poverty
-All children died in infancy
-His young wives died during his lifetime
-Found strength in small creatures and insects (Creatures whose lives are fleeting and appear overwhelmed by the elements)

The Haiku
-Can be read from line 1-3 and line 3-1

-The Camillia Flower

- Sumida River








-Discuss structure
-Students will Read BASHO and ISSA
(page 6 in packet)

1. What simple/ natural elements do these poets describe?
2. A haiku can make us see two things at the same time.  What two things do we see in these works?
3.  What does Basho describe in his haiku?
4. What small creatures does Issa write about in his haiku
5. A haiku can make us see two things at the same time.  What two things do we see in Issa's poem?

11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony