Forms of Fragmentary Writing and their Relationship with Haiku

Abstract

Fragmentary forms of writing appeared falteringly in different historical periods within the fields of literary, critical, and philosophical writing. But it has become the choice of the current era "the speed era'' at the level of poetry and prose. This study aims to clarify the nature of each fragmentary forms, whether poetic or prose, and to clarify the boundaries between fragmentary forms in general, and between them and haiku poetry in particular, and that because of the great confusion that occurs between these forms, as some believe that they are all haiku, or a signature, or epigram… however, each one of them has an identity and specificity, even though they all came together under one name: fragmentary forms, and that because of all of these fragmentary forms are agreement in adopting the two characteristics of linguistic brevity and moral condensation. All similarities and differences between these forms will be explained in this research.