The New Poetics of the Impersonal in Art and the Role Played by the Poem Furu ike ya in Matsuo Bashō’s Writings

The present article analyses the poetics of the haiku and the aesthetic principles on which the new vision imposed by Matsuo Bashō on Japanese poetry in the last two decades of the 17th century is based. Known as the founder of a new poetic form, the haiku, Matsuo Bashō, through his poetry, creates not only a new poetic order, but also a true path on which his disciples later set off. Starting from the haiku known as “the old pond poem”, the present article identifies and analyses the poeticity features of Matsuo Bashō’s poetry.

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