An old pond. A frog jumps in. The sound of water. - English example sentence

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Selena777 November 26, 2014 November 26, 2014 at 9:47:14 PM UTC

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I like it. It looks like Japanese poem.

al_ex_an_der November 26, 2014, edited November 26, 2014 November 26, 2014 at 9:57:01 PM UTC, edited November 26, 2014 at 9:57:18 PM UTC

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That's a translation of a classical haiku. Maybe for poetry the rules are less strict(?)

al_ex_an_der November 26, 2014 November 26, 2014 at 10:49:20 PM UTC

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This website shows many different English translations.
---> http://www.bopsecrets.org/gatew...basho-frog.htm

CK November 27, 2014, edited November 27, 2014 November 27, 2014 at 4:06:04 AM UTC, edited November 27, 2014 at 4:22:59 AM UTC

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Annotation:

Lafcadio Hearn's translation of a haiku.

There is a 1994 NHK documentary about him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGgQefMQGQ .

There was also an interesting 1984 mini-series about him, starring one of the West Side Story actors, George Chakiris. Perhaps you could locate this on the Web somewhere.