Space saving
Haiku is very short object.There is too few space for long-drawn-out tales.
We
have therefore to use a technique that saves space by :
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avoiding redundancies : all that can be guessed or imaginated from what
has been said is to be avoided.
- evoking things from a detail; the reader will reconstruct the rest. |
That
leads to describe the world from little details.
An approach by touches
Chinese and Japanese have a way of describing the world through enumerating things, sometimes in disorder, leaving the reader replacing things in order.It is the kind of perception that we use in the painting reading (tabular reading). Eye strolls, brain gathers objects and reconstructs a global impression.
That
technique is used in haiku writing because it strengthens the possible
effects through :
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the possibility of multiple senses and readings.
- the delay caused to the definitive storage of impressions by the brain, that enhances the resonance effect of impression through the enrichment of the number of links between the new image and those previously in the subconscious. - the possible contribution by the reader's subconscious own images, making the appropriation of the situation easier. |