Matsuo Basho

The Winter Storm

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The Winter Storm - meaning Summary

Silence Within a Storm

This short haiku presents a single natural image: a winter storm that seems to conceal itself in a bamboo grove and then falls silent. The poem focuses on transience and the soft erasure of disturbance by landscape, turning violent weather into a hush. Its compressed language invites readers to notice a fleeting change of mood and the intimate interplay between outer weather and a small place of quiet.

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The winter storm Hid in the bamboo grove And quieted away.

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