HORRIBLE HALLOWEEN HAIKU

HORRIBLE
HALLOWEEN
HAIKU
Les morts, les squelettes, les cimetières, les esprits, les sorcières,
les malédictions, les potions, les citrouilles…
Le département de langues modernes t’invite à laisser courir ton
imagination sur le culte de la peur et du macabre en créant un
poème ‘Haiku’, sans rime, de trois lignes seulement.
Suivre la recette magique :
1e ligne : 5 syllabes
2e ligne : 7 syllabes
3e ligne : 5 syllabes
Exemples :
Bright orange devil
Jack-o-lanterns darken dreams
Ancient Halloween
Prowling through the grass
Black and quiet as the night
Do not cross my path
12 prix à gagner!
Trois prix pour chaque niveau d’élèves (4). Tu dois remettre ton poème au plus tard, le
lundi 7 novembre 2011. Les professeurs et professeures du département voteraient pour
les meilleurs la semaine après. Les gagnants et gagnantes auront une place « d’horreur »
sur le site web du cégep: www.cegepsth.qc.ca/anglais-langue-seconde
The venerable Japanese haiku is a three line, unrhymed poem composed of five
syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five in the third. This, however, is only
the skeleton of a haiku. Like a Zen meditation on life’s meaning, haiku should capture the
essence of an idea by arousing a specific emotion and suggesting a spîritual insight into
the natural world and the interaction of humans with the world – all in a highly
concentrated poetic form. For this reason, there are no unnecessary words, no rhymes or
similes; instead, there are vivid words, alliteration and an implicit pattern of tension and
release created through the special function of each line.
The five syllables of the first line forcefully present a concrete image, usually of
the world of nature. Think first of an appropriate general or abstract noun, then think of a
picture that illustrates it and introduce the poem’s topic by describing that picture in a
few well-chosen words, usually nouns and adjectives. The seven syllables of the second
line represent the interaction of humans with the natural world, and they should express
movement by using active verbs to develop the first line’s image in order to create a
tension between the passive and active sense, between the worlds of nature and society.
The five syllables of the third line resolve this tension by revealing the meaning of the
entire haiku.