Background: Emerging evidence indicates that poor mental health and loneliness increased in the UK population during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, media reports suggested increased public ...engagement with arts and culture during the lockdown period. Aim: To explore the levels of and impact of arts engagement amongst staff and students from one UK university during the first pandemic lockdown. Methods: 112 staff/students completed an online survey which asked about their arts engagement and invited them to write a haiku about their lockdown experiences. Findings: Participants engaged in a wide range of arts, cultural and creative activities; some engaged more frequently and/or in new activities. Participants reported having more time and opportunity to undertake such activities, which improved their mental wellbeing and facilitated social connections. Forty-seven participants wrote a haiku, and it was evident that the haikus provided a different perspective on lockdown experiences, enabling the expression of emotions including fear, loneliness, and a lack of freedom, as well as hope and optimism. Originality: Increased creative engagement supported staff and students through the first UK lockdown and haiku poetry was a powerful method for capturing the nuances of their experiences beyond traditional survey responses.
En las últimas décadas, el impacto de la tecnología digital ha sido constante. Su carácter invasivo, omnipresente y adictivo (Steiner-Adair y Baker, 2013) ha afectado no solo a nuestra manera de ...aproximarnos al texto escrito, sino también al propio lector. Especialmente en las nuevas generaciones, que conviven de continuo con una sobreabundancia de información –que no consiguen transformar en conocimiento– y de oferta digital para el ocio. Una mutación que se refleja en el aula. Por todo ello, este trabajo intenta definir el perfil de los nuevos lectores digitales a través de una serie de metáforas. Y, una vez definido, se propone contrarrestar los hábitos lectores del alumnado de hoy en día mediante una educación literaria creativa, activa e interdisciplinar que contrarreste la superficialidad e impaciencia lectora de los/las discentes mediante la enseñanza y aprendizaje de formas literaria breves, como el microrrelato, el aforismo, la greguería y especialmente haiku, del que se recogen algunas experiencias educativas desarrolladas en territorio español.
We present here an account of the way we employ the reading of poetry in engaging participants of an intensive four-week creative arts programme known as ARRTS (Arts for Recovery, Resilience, ...Teamwork and Skills) for wounded, ill or injured serving military personnel people with injury or illness, to prepare and assist them in writing their own stories. Poetry can deal with experience and perception in unique ways, as can haiku, which are invaluable for their accessibility and depth. The open qualities of our reading matter invite discussion and models the fact that poetry gives us permission to feel and to express ourselves. This discussion and engagement with readings is a key aspect of any prospective writer's development, and, supplemented by the identification of specific techniques such as enjambment, creates awareness of ways in which it is possible to 're-author' experience for healing effect.
From the perspective of poetry therapy, the author relates Western views of poetic time, rhythm, literary creation, and metaphoric language to ancient Chinese conceptions of literature and to the ...haiku tradition. The author analyzes and develops practical approaches to using haiku for therapeutic, rehabilitative, and preventive purposes. In haikus, he detects potential to explorative and meditative self- and communal transformation, flexible coping with current anxieties, and the advancement of social and cultural well-being. The ecopoetic applications of haiku pave way to more empathic connections of human beings to nature and the whole cosmos.
Quantitative evaluations of ecosystem services are important for promoting sustainable use. However, evaluations of cultural ecosystem services (CESs) lag behind those of other services. Artistic ...inspiration obtained from ecosystems, which is a component of CESs, has been evaluated using the number of artistic works produced about ecosystems. However, this service has not yet been evaluated for modern Japanese artistic works created by ordinary citizens. Therefore, I attempted to evaluate the artistic inspiration service of birds, using modern haiku created by ordinary people. I collected haikus related to birds from Asahi Haidan, which is the haiku-posting section of Asahi Shimbun, from 2014.2019, and examined relationships between the number of haikus related to each bird family and their habitats. In addition, to determine annual changes in the inspiration service, I examined annual changes in the numbers of haikus related to birds from 1996-2019. The relationships between habitats and the numbers of haikus showed that bird families inhabiting farmland, lakes and rivers were more often used as the subjects of haikus. This is thought to be because people and birds share living space in these habitats. The annual changes in the numbers of haikus related to birds showed that the total numbers did not change between 1996 and 2019. However, the numbers of haikus related to birds generally (not related to any specific family) increased, while the numbers of haikus related to specific bird families decreased. This could be because of a decline in ordinary peoples’ ability to identify species, their knowledge of the ecology of species, and their willingness to make detailed observations, which are necessary for the creation of haikus related to specific bird families. Based on these results, it seems plausible that ecological education and the conservation of ecosystems, particularly farmland, lakes and rivers, may be important for the conservation of the artistic inspiration services provided by birds. This study is a valuable example of a quantitative assessment of the inspiration service of modern Japanese artistic work. Integrating these results with the results of assessments of other ecosystem services could lead to more balanced decision-making on conservation.
El propòsit d'aquest article es descriure la poètica de Teillier durant els anys 60 y 70 en poemes breus, molts dels quals es revelen com haikus. Aquest aspecte de l'obra de Teillier és poc atès per ...la crítica i no solament es verifica a través de textos que en gran mesura s'asimilen al haiku japonès clàssic. Així aquest autor troba una consonància més profunda i amb el terme “morada irreal” de Basho, que expressa la fragmentarietat d'allò real, almenys d'aquella part del món circumdant que revela insospitades connexions amb un altre temps i lloc.
El arte de Sono-Jo, discípula de Bashō Rodríguez-Izquierdo Gavala, Fernando
Kokoro: Revista para la difusión de la cultura japonesa,
2017
25
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
It is presented and translated into Spanish, for the first time, four beautiful haikus written
by the poet Sono-jo who was a pupil of Matsuo Bashō and one of the best exponents of
femenine haiku of ...her time.
Se presentan y se traducen aquí, por primera vez en español, cuatro hermosos haikus
escritos por la poetisa Sono-jo, discípula directa de Matsuo Bashō y una de las mejores
representantes del haiku femenino de su época.
Festa explores James Merrill's use of haiku masters Issa and Ryokan in his work "The Book of Ephraim." He argues that Merrill's quotation of Issa's haiku in section Q of the book is actually closer ...to a translation of Ryokan by Alan Watts. This play with quotations and allusions is characteristic of Merrill's style, which often parodies the long poems of Eliot and Pound. He also discusses the theme of translation in Merrill's work, particularly in relation to memory and identity. The presence of Issa and Ryokan in the poem adds depth and complexity to the overall narrative. He concludes by mentioning the absence of Ryokan in the final assembly at Sandover, highlighting the intricate interplay of characters and themes in Merrill's epic.
In the psychology of aesthetics, compared with appreciation, there are fewer studies on art creation. This study aims to examine the influence of art creation on appreciation using haiku poetry with ...reference to the Mirror Model—a process model combining creation and appreciation. Although the model has been primarily used to examine visual arts, we examine its applicability to linguistic arts. In addition, we use ink painting to examine whether a generalisation across artistic genres can occur. The 115 participants were divided into two conditions—creation and control. The former created haiku before and after appreciation, while the latter did not create any haiku. The results showed no improvement in evaluation through creation. Additionally, recognising the difficulty related to creation leads to aesthetic evaluation, and this relationship is mediated by awe. These results expand the existing information regarding the Mirror Model in terms of the different art genres.
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