Tag: sense switching

• An Introduction to Haiku – Compositional Techniques 2

  Sense Switching “Sense switching” is a great technique for surprising and delighting the reader. A haiku poet might use it to engage the reader by introducing something unexpected in the poem or to connect two seemingly unrelated events or images. You can do this through careful placement of information across the phrase and fragment. Here,…

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  August 26, 2013

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