Which of the following poems can be described as a haiku ?
Correct answer: A. Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"
- A. Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"
- B. Bishop's "One Art"
- C. Auden's "Paysage Moralisé"
- D. William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18"
Explanation
Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" is a very brief imagistic poem arranged in two lines and strongly influenced by the Japanese haiku's compressed presentation of an image. The other choices are a villanelle, a ballad-like poem, and a sonnet.
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