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• Title: Thomas Wolfe's Haiku World (Critical Essay)
• Author : Thomas Wolfe Review
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 165 KB

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A few years ago, I read a paper on Thomas Wolfe in Japan. In the question period, a scholar of American literature asked me: "Where do you put Thomas Wolfe among the great writers of the twentieth century, such as Faulkner and Hemingway?" I answered: "I do not put Wolfe among these great writers because Wolfe was a poet while they were not." I think that Wolfe scholars in the United States would agree with me about his being a poet. His next question was "What kind of poet was Thomas Wolfe?" I answered, "Wolfe was a kind of haiku poet." Audience members were stunned. In Japan, Thomas Wolfe is well known as a writer of lengthy fiction who wrote four voluminous novels, each more than 600 pages long, whereas haiku is one of the shortest poetic forms in the world. The audience was therefore surprised to hear from me that Wolfe was a kind of haiku poet. In this essay, I explain my reasons for believing that Thomas Wolfe was a haiku poet or a haiku-minded poet. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines haiku as "a form of Japanese lyric verse that encapsulates a single impression of a natural object or scene, within a particular season, in seventeen syllables" (Baldick 95). Here is an example, first in transliterated Japanese, then in English translation:

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