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Analysis of the Haiku structure

back and forth
across our conversation

allant et venant
dans notre conversation
les lucioles

Peter Brady, Canada
cco 2011-11-1


vol de lucioles = conversation

Archetypes : Lumière dans la Nuit


firefly summer light darkness

Structure of this haiku.

Used techniques :

* archetype - Active archetypes.

* simili - Similitudes.
Use of images with common semes. The sharing of common semes (qualities, characteristics) makes images reinforce each other. There is resonance because the mind makes the relationship between the two images.

A cup of tea and a lake share the fact that they are an expanse of liquid surrounded by a rim. We can "see" the image of one in the other.

* yugen - Yugen.
Yugen is a concept of Japanese aesthetics that can be expressed as deep, mysterious, dark, troubled.... In criticism of Japanese poetry, he expresses a subtle depth of things that are vaguely evoked in the poem.

Archetypes and dialectics

* A_LumiereNuit - The Light in the Night.

Tout ce qui apparait au propre comme au figuré comme une lumière dans la nuit. Un espoir, le bout du tunnel. Un abri. Le phare. La survivance d'une chose noyée dans un univers "hostile".

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