Haiku. Japanese Lyric

Japanese lyrical poems haiku differ in their extreme brevity and unique poetics, reflecting through their style the life of nature and man in their inseparable unity against the backdrop of the changing seasons. The term "afterfeeling" fully reflects Japanese lyricism... — for the deep resonance born from a word does not fade immediately. The ability to awaken the imagination is one of the main properties of Japanese poetry. Such masters as Bashō, Buson, and Issa are just a few of those whose verses can still stir our feelings. In the translation by poet, philologist, and literary critic Vera Nikolaevna Markova, unique Japanese poetic miniatures transform into aphoristic free verse, shifting into blank verse.