/lit/ - Literature

>>20465135
>Morae aren’t syllables and in Japanese there’s a whole tradition of free verse haiku.
I never said they were syllables, but that its misleading to act as though there isn't some form of linguistic counting going on in Japanese poetry, and even then, morae are still counted, be it haiku, tanka, renga, or haikai. It isnt in any way shape or form some sort of translation issue like you imply. If you want to say there's free form that doesn't stick to traditional morae count, fine, cool, but you're being misleading and obtuse if you're going to state that its not done at all.

奥山に O|ku|ya|ma | ni 5
紅葉ふみわけ Mo|mi|ji| fu|mi|wa|ke 7
鳴く鹿の Na|ku shi|ka |no 5
声きく時ぞ Ko|e ki|ku to|ki |zo 7
秋は悲しき A|ki wa ka|na shi|ki 7

>I also never spoke of the origin of haiku, simply that there are prose styles based on it.
Which is wrong, and my point, nigger; haikus are based on the longer from, not the other way around. It's flat out incorrect to say that a derivative form is what the seminal form is based on.

>>20465273
No.

>>20317265
>The only disadvantage is that those four books teach you nothing what you should do. They just tell you how.
That's the point

>>20058101
>, but creating a loving relationship with someone who is doomed to their fate seems abhorrently cruel.
All humans are dying, so why is it so wrong to love one whom is going to live a little less? You dont know who she has in her life, or what kind of connections she might or might not have, but your arrogance in thinking, self-centered superiority and shortsightedness are all unseemly.