March 15th 2022 implication and suggestion
I have been making a post everyday now for a few months, and I feel it has started to become a way of life for me. I have so far allowed myself to write freely, which is an enjoyable way, but I’ve also been reading about how others engage with haiku, mostly from authors, whereas my direction is from photography.
Last night I read the text to the right, which was written by Graceguts, and I have extracted two words to both create photography, and write the associated haiku over the next few days, which are implication and suggestion.
The most important characteristic of haiku is how it conveys, through implication and suggestion, a moment of keen perception and perhaps insight into nature or human nature. Haiku does not state this insight, however, but implies it. In the last hundred years—in Japanese and English-language haiku—implication has been achieved most successfully through the use of objective imagery. This means you avoid words that interpret what you experience, such as saying something is “beautiful” or “mysterious,” and rely on words that objectively convey the facts of what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. Instead of writing about your reactions to stimuli, in a good haiku you write about those things that cause your reactions. If you remember nothing else about crafting haiku, remember that. If your haiku take advantage of this technique, your readers can experience the same feelings you felt, without your having to explain them (written by Gracenuts).