tanka

Examples of tanka in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata. Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022 Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy. Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022 His haiku and tanka translations influenced Pound, Rexroth, and others. Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019

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“Tanka.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanka. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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