Haiku – 3 lists

  Lab 9.1

3 examples of human-written haiku (1600’s and 1700’s)

Clouds appear
and bring to men a chance to rest
from looking at the moon.

Basho, Matsuo. (1644-1694)

  A whale!
Down it goes, and more and more
up goes its tail!

Buson, Yosa. (1716-84)

  Lightning:
Heron’s cry
Stabs the darkness 

Basho, Matsuo. (1644-1694)

  Lab 9.2

3 examples from the Haiku generator (unaltered)

  Rock in the storm
The liquid storm of a sun
Bitter breeze

  A misty hidden sea
In the frosty tree
The flower grows

   The misty rock
A breeze whispers under the rain
Autumn bitter storm

Lab 9.3

3 (well okay, 4) examples from the Haiku generator

(Modified the form and added words to 4 of 5 lists)

  A snow
Ice drifts
Walks a sea

  A rain
Rain whispers
Whispers a waterfall

  An ice
Storm drifts
Travels the rock

 Evening struggles
Wind has stopped from lightning
Autumn from a storm

3 examples used to judge which was written by a human, and which were generated by the java program:

  The misty rock
A breeze whispers under the rain
Autumn bitter storm

  Lightning:
Heron’s cry
Stabs the darkness

   Evening struggles
Wind has stopped from lightning
Autumn from a storm

        What happened was that I asked my wife, who homeschools my children - two that are at home, and the two that are in and have graduated from college - to be the guinea pig of this experiment. Since she has, and is now teaching English, I figured she might catch on without a little editing. Rather than edit the generated haiku, which would give them an unfair advantage, I took the REAL haiku (the middle haiku above) and removed the colon and apostrophe - since the java program doesn't add any punctuation. I figured this would kind of level the playing floor. 

         I guess I was right, maybe to a fault: when I asked her which of the 3 haiku was actually written by a human, my wife picked the first haiku in this group, which you can see was generated by the java program - unaltered! Pretty neat.