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How did Matsuo Basho elevate haiku to a mature art form?

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How did Matsuo Basho elevate haiku to a mature art form?

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MU: Haiku before Basho’s time was more or less an urban game or pastime written on lighthearted occasions. Almost singlehandedly, Basho turned it into serious poetry by making it true to actual human experience, to what the poet actually saw and felt, with all sincerity and faithfulness. Basho did not completely reject the playfulness characteristic of prior haiku, but he showed that haiku was capable of embodying, in its brief form, all the various feelings and moods of human life. At one time, he even suggested that those feelings and moods were more important than haiku itself: “Haiku may well be nonexistent,” he is reported to have said, “but those who neither harmonize with the ways of the world nor know the feelings of people must be said to be the least artistic.” In other words, to understand human feelings and give appropriate form to them is basic to haiku. RW: You wrote in 1970 that Basho “always encouraged his students to cultivate their individual talents rather than to fo

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