Headsets

addressing the psychological aspect of literary craft as it applies to haiku and senryu

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Even More Mood:
Wabi, Sabi, Empty

BY Paul Watsky

                                    an empty elevator
                                    opens
                                    closes

                                         —Jack Cain
                                    (The Haiku Anthology, p. 21. All poems quoted below are from this source.)

Orwell in 1984 dwells on the theme that it’s hard to generate a thought, especially an abstract one, without a [...]

Headsets addresses the psychological aspect of literary craft as it applies to haiku and senryu. Poetry elicits emotion and associations from readers by means of subjectively potent rhetorical devices. Classic psychotherapy questions will be asked: “What’s happening here?” and “How do you (might one) feel about that?” Readers are invited to examine their responses, and [...]

Headsets addresses the psychological aspect of literary craft as it applies to haiku and senryu. Poetry elicits emotion and associations from readers by means of subjectively potent rhetorical devices. Classic psychotherapy questions will be asked: “What’s happening here?” and “How do you (might one) feel about that?” Readers are invited to examine their responses, and [...]

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By Paul Watsky

A reader’s mood, “a conscious state of mind or emotion” (according to Webster’s on-line dictionary), derives from two principal factors: the poem’s tone—herein understood as the writer’s expressed attitude toward the material and/or reader—and the reader’s subjective associations, both conscious and unconscious, to the poem’s elements. If the poet’s tone and the reader’s [...]