Matsuo Basho

A Strange Flower

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A Haiku's Compressed Image

This poem is a haiku, a three-line lyric that relies on compression and image. Its brevity concentrates perception: a single, odd flower is placed alongside birds, butterflies and the autumn sky, leaving gaps the reader fills. The form's tightness creates an immediate sensory focus and a quiet open-endedness, so the emotional or symbolic link between small life and seasonal expanse emerges through implication rather than explicit statement.

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