It is one full of polysemy that derives from the language of the unconscious. Basho's poetry is neither realistic nor surrealistic.

) is one of the best examples of such poetry that evokes the unconscious in which day and night, white and black, visible and audible, reality and dream, life and death. 'Umi-kurete/ Kamo-no koe/ Honokani shiroshi' (The Sea darkened/Voices of wild ducks/ Vaguely white. Following and advancing his analysis to a deeper level, we discover Basho's poetry as a synthesis of structural dynamics deriving from the opposition of two elements and keen sense of temporality coming from the unconscious in which life and death melt together. It is thanks to him that the interpretation of Basho's entered a new phase. Nevertheless, before Lee Oryong, a Korean literary critique, there was no structural analysis of them which could reveal their real universal value. Of course, there are exceptions such as Octavio Paz or Yves Bonnefoy, who made successful interpretations of them by purely literary reading they tried to understand Basho as a poet, as a linguistic genius, instead of looking for a philosopher in him. His The Narrow Road of the Interior is a travel tale based on the personal searching for the harmony with nature. Abstract : Although the poetical works of Basho, one of the most eminent haikai poets, have exercised influence on Western modern poetry whose most well-known example is Ezra Pound's imagisim, they have been interpreted wrongly by the Westerners who put too much emphasis on zen spirit. Critical Analysis: The Narrow Road of the Interior of Matsuo Basho as the Reflection of Searching for the Harmony Essay A Japanese poet of Edo period of the 17th century, Matsuo Basho is well-known as a master of the brief and clear haiku. In the later part of his career he invented his own principles of poetry which he called sabi (meaning spare, lonely beauty).

Basho haiku analysis