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    This document provides biographical information about the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho and analyzes his famous haiku "The old pond". It notes that Basho lived from 1644 to 1694, was a famous poet in Japan known for haiku and travel writing. The haiku describes an old silent pond where a frog jumps in, breaking the silence and creating a sound of water. The poem uses these natural elements symbolically to represent inner peace being disturbed by chaos.

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    •The Old Pond by Matsuo

    Basho

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 116


    Matsou Basho
     1644- November 28,1694
     Ueno, in Iga Province
     At the age of 18, he served at Todo Clan as a
    cook and learned haikai poetry from his master
     Famous poet of the Edo period in Japan and
    known as the first great poet of Haiku
     Recognized as the greatest master of haiku and
    for his collaborative haikai no renga form
     “basho” a Japanese banana plant
    1684, his mother died in his hometown Iga
    and he traveled to Nara, Kyoto, Nagoya,
    and Kiso to visit the grave
    Travel writing called “Nozarashi Kiko” or
    the Journal of Bleach Bones in a field
    He died because of an illness on the way
    of his travel to Osaka
    He completed the writing of “The Narrow
    Road to Deep North”
    The old pond
    Original Japanese translation
    Fu-ru i-ke ya (5)
    ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mo (7)
    mi-zu no o-to (5)
    Literal translation (Fumiko Saisho)
    Fu-ru(old) i-ke(pond) ya
    ka-wa-zu(frog) to-bi-ko-mo(jumping into)
    mi-zu(water) no o-to(sound)
    The old pond
    a frog jumps in,
    sound of water.
    -translated by Robert Hass

    An old silent pond


    a frog jumps into the pond
    splash! Silence again.
    -translated by Harry Behn
    OLD POND by Matsou Basho
    -the symbols of this poem describe objects
    such as pond (a symbolic meaning
    towards a person’s mind)
    -Pond describes itself a feeling of tranquility
    and peace.
    - “A frog jumps in” symbolically a feeling
    of disturbance and chaos.
    - “the sound of water” symbolically talks
    about the effect of disturbance.
    THEME:
    Whenever there is peace there will
    always be chaos that has yet to occur.

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