[Milton-L] milton's theodicy in haiku

[Angelica Duran]

Dear all,

I resisted adding to the interesting and fun haiku strand my hopefully still
interesting but not necessarily fun input.  Whenever I teach the Milton
course, I bring in the haiku of Milton¹s near-contemporary Matsuo Bashø
(1644-1694), and I step out of our era of study to share my favorite haiku
of the past decade by Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827):

        Don¹t worry, spiders,
    I keep house
        casually.

It is good for students (and for my soul) to recognize different models of
artistic excellence and form across the globe during Milton¹s lifetime.  I
wish I knew the original Chinese.

Adios,

Angelica Duran
Associate Professor
English and Comparative Literature
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
USA
(765) 496-3957
<duran0 at purdue.edu>
<http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/directory/?personid=80>




> From: Gregory Machacek <Gregory.Machacek at marist.edu>
> Reply-To: John Milton Discussion List <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:49:43 -0400
> To: John Milton Discussion List <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
> Subject: [Milton-L] milton's theodicy in haiku
> 
> I couldn't resist the challenge.  Two entries:
> 
>       That Good might know you
> Loved Me freely, I allowed
>       Your choosing evil.
> 
> More enjambment than is typical in a haiku (but, hey, that's our guy).  But
> also too light on imagery, which the following partly corrects:
> 
>       From a garden's goods,
> The fruit that, shunned, would show you
>       Loved freely eaten.
> 
> Greg Machacek
> Professor of English
> Marist College
> 
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