Mersita Sheila Wasli Afifah binti Shamsul Anuar Mohamad Haziq bin Ridzuan Norhaslinda binti Muhamadin Madam

Lim Wai Fun

LIMERICKS
By Mersita Sheila Wasli

 Witty, humorous, obscene, nonsense poem. Five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme (AABBA). An example of a limerick;
There was an Old Person whose habits, Induced him to feed upon rabbits; When he'd eaten eighteen, He turned perfectly green, Upon which he relinquished those habits.
By Edward Lear.

WHAT IS A LIMERICK?

 tool to conduct Nursery Rhymes for childrenis short & amusing. Later it became bawdy, sexual and dirty, beggars and the working-class in most British pubs and taverns used it to insult and make fun of the oppressors-cynical and sarcasticsounding.

THE HISTORY BEHIND LIMERICKS

 As these people are the majority of the oppressed, they use limericks in expressing honest opinions. Popularized by Edward Lear Book of Nonsense (1845) mostly nonsense verse. Also used for puns. World War II.

Origin of the name Limerick

City or County of Limerick in Ireland Maigue Poets River Maigue near Croom, County of Limerick.
the meeting place of the Maigue Poets in 18th century.

Maigue Poets were the first people to have ever written limericks.
They wrote love songs, elegies, drinking songs, etc. Sean Clarach Mac Domhnaill (Irish poet)

Haiku
by: Afifah binti Shamsul Anuar

History
Haikus are believed to have first been written in the 17th century Haiku is based on a Zen Buddhist philosophy of simplicity Derived from a Japanese play called Tanka Hokku Haiku (19th Century : Masaoka Shiki) The three great masters of the haiku: Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson and Kobayashi Issa.

Examples: This cold winter night the snow clings to the tree boughs in the pale moonlight the kisses of your soft lips warm this aching heart of mine
By : Gerard John Conforti

History of- Usage of Haiku

Japanese Courtship Rituals
When a man wanted to court a lady, he would write to her a Haiku poem If the lady liked the Haiku (and the man) she would write him a Tanka in response!

Form and Structure

Japanese Has no title English

it is unrhymed and it can be read in one breath

Contains kigo- an image of nature (usually occurs in 1st or 3rd line) Usually contains a cutting or pivot word that turns the movement of the poem in some way. Links nature with human nature

Form and Structure

Japanese
Pure syllabic form Pattern: - 17 syllables - 3 lines - 5-7-5 Simple, direct, non-metaphoric (Dont use abstract words) Captures moment in time- aha moment

English
Compressed into 11-13 syllables Why lesser? Diff in grammar - Diff in rhythm According to Robert Haas, a wellexecuted haiku doesn't describe nature or an experience, but rather conveys a sense of actually living it, of a "moment seized on and purely rendered. Readers should be able to experience the moment through their senses, not the writers.

Examples:
Japanese Version Furuike ya Kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto By: Basho (Translation)- English Version Old pond.. a frog leaps in waters sound
translated by William J. Higginson

TANKA
By Mohamad Haziq Ridzuan

WHAT IS TANKA?
Tanka ( "short poem") is a genre of
classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.
Tanka, also means - the modern name for the traditional form of lyric poetry which has been composed in Japan for over 1300 years.

HISTORY
Originally intended to be chanted aloud to musical accompaniment, waka/tanka are believed to have existed already in the oral literature of the seventh century. The earliest Japanese anthology is the mid eighth century Manysh (Collection of Myriad Leaves), compiled of some 4,496 individual poems. Of them 4,173 are written in the form of Tanka. The earliest waka/Tanka recorded, were not divided into subcategories of strict forms.

HISTORY
The modern revival of tanka began with several poets who began to publish literary

magazines.

Emphasizing originality and individuality, Tekkan, with Akiko and with other members of his Tokyo Shinshisha
(New Poets Society), began in

1900 the publication of

a journal called Myj (Morning Star) to popularize his poetic views. Every

magazine and newspapers that were published began to create a column for Tanka.

Tanka was soon recognized as a new genre.

FORM
Tanka consist of a structure of 31 syllabus, with five units (often treated as separate lines when romanized or translated) usually with the following pattern of onji:

5-7-5-7-7.
The 5-7-5 is called the kami-no-ku ("upper phrase"), and the 7-7 is called the shimo-no-ku ("lower phrase"). Traditionally tanka has had no concept of rhyme or even of line. Instead of lines, waka has the unit () and the phrase ( ).

FORM
Shirokane mo What are they to me,
Kugane mo tama mo Silver, or gold, or jewels?

Nanisemu ni

How could they ever

Masareru takara

Equal the greater treasure That is a child? They can not.

Koni shikame yamo

THEMES/TOPIC
The common main topics of Tanka in the earlier times were love, sadness (especially on the occasion of someone's death).

Most themes of modern written Tanka mainly talks about life, nature, expressing feeling and emotion. Akiko Yosano, in the Myj, with her uninhibited compositions about sexual passion and love, blazed the trails for a new romantic poetry and the new woman in Japanese literature.

EXAMPLES
To live is to break by Ueda Miyoji
Saying Goodbye Carefully I walk Trying so hard to be brave They all see my fear Dark glasses cover their eyes As mine flow over with tears To live is to break One's heart for the sake of love; A couple of doves, Beaks touching on their way in, Are stepping out in the sun.

Death Circle
In necropolis Praying, breathing and smiling Awaiting my wings To fly on the other side Just to return underground

Cinquain
By Norhaslinda Binti Muhamadin 2010239764

Pioneer
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
a teacher at Miss Lowe's Preparatory School for Girls in Stamford, Connecticut. In the later part of her life, she suffered from incurable tuberculosis. During that time, she invented the cinquain form of poetry, which was heavily

She composed more than 30 poems.

 Came about in 1916. The name comes from the French word "cinq," meaning " because this type of poem consists of a five-line stanza. Other characteristics
does not rhyme and has no more than 22 syllables,
which are written in a 2-4-6-8-2 pattern.

The form has evolved over time primarily used in and teaching .

 A cinquain poem has five lines. similar to haiku in that the rules for writing them are based on syllables. Cinquain poems have the following pattern:
Line 1 2 syllables Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 4 syllables 6 syllables 8 syllables 2 syllables

is based on words,

instead of syllables.
Word cinquains have the following pattern:

Line 1
Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5

1 word
2 words 3 words 4 words 1 word

Title Description of the title Some action about the title Feeling about the title Synonym (similar word) for title

Cinquain Pattern #1 Line1: One word Line2: Two words Line 3: Three words Line 4: Four words Line 5: One word

Dinosaurs Lived once, Long ago, but Only dust and dreams Remain (by Cindy Barden)

Knights Armour ,shields Fighting, charging, slaughtering Worried, delighted, brave, fearsome Crusaders (by Megan)

Cinquain Pattern #2 Line1: A noun Line2: Two adjectives Line 3: Three -ing words Line 4: A phrase Line 5: Another word for the noun Cinquain Pattern #3 Line1: Two syllables Line2: Four syllables Line 3: Six syllables Line 4: Eight syllables Line 5: Two syllables

Spaghetti Messy, spicy Slurping, sliding, falling Between my plate and mouth Delicious (by Cindy Barden)

Mules Stubborn, unmoving Braying, kicking, resisting Not wanting to listen People (by Cindy Barden)

Baseball Bat cracks against The pitch, sending it out Over the back fence, I did it! Homerun (by Cindy Barden)

Listen... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall. (by Adalaide Crapsey)

 It is better to stick with concrete objects than with abstract ideas (My Dog rather than Happiness)

Mixing the emphasis of the

(or ) will create a stronger effect than writing a string of words with similar lengths and emphasis

and

can be used

to help make your cinquain poem memorable

There are no specific rules about writing a cinquain other than that it must have five lines and the correct

syllable count (or, if writing a word

cinquain, the correct word count).