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each other and these elements lead to unresolved controversies. It’s unavoidable to engage in these problems, as recent
European poetry has several common features with the Eastern literature.
Besides the obvious differences, the objective poetry of the late modern period and some pieces of poetry of the
East show essential analogies.
The aim of this essay is to show some similarities between the European poetry and the haiku, which is one of the
most prevailing genre of the Japanese poetry. Both poetic strategies are based on the idea that the same system controls
the individual personality and the objects of the world. They are projected on each other, they are turned into
each other in a never ending, dynamic unity. Some authors turn consciously to haiku and renew it by filtering through
themselves. Others get to similar structures without Eastern influences. They clear the poem from the traditional
personal presence and in this way they get to a more complete expression of the personality.
The essay deals with the poetry of some Western poets like Ezra Pound, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Attila József,
György Petri, Sándor Weöres, Imre Babics and also with Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, the classic Japanese authors.
Keywords: objective poetry, haiku, self
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