Haiku: An Introduction To Poetry

Duration: 11

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Coronet Film and Video

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Copyright: Registered 19Mar70 · MP20566 (Jul-Dec 1970) Copyright holder: Coronet Instructional Films, a division of Esquire, Inc Production company: Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology

Description: Visual impressions of the sensations of life, enhanced with music, convey the essence of Haiku, the briefest and purest poetry which originated in Japan over three hundred years ago. Motion pictures of wind chimes, waterfalls, willow trees, leaves, a single blossom, and bare branches are shown to inspire thought and illustrate examples of Haiku verses read by both feminine and masculine voices., Conveys the purpose, structure, and aesthetic and cultural moods of haiku through photographic illustrations or oral readings. Examines the relationship between nature and man which is found in this form of poetry. Explains that it is the unsaid, the sensations of life through the mental anthropomorphism of all things, that creates poetry.

Complete Record: Visual impressions of the sensations of life, enhanced with music, convey the essence of Haiku, the briefest and purest poetry which originated in Japan over three hundred years ago. Motion pictures of wind chimes, waterfalls, willow trees, leaves, a single blossom, and bare branches are shown to inspire thought and illustrate examples of Haiku verses read by both feminine and masculine voices., Conveys the purpose, structure, and aesthetic and cultural moods of haiku through photographic illustrations or oral readings. Examines the relationship between nature and man which is found in this form of poetry. Explains that it is the unsaid, the sensations of life through the mental anthropomorphism of all things, that creates poetry.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.