Linguistics

When I was in 6th grade, we often took ’trips’ to the computer lab during science class. Towards the beginning of the year, we were conducting an ecological report on an animal of our choosing, and our teacher Mrs. Blake taught us a lesson about finding credible sources and citing them. Here were the basic tenants I learned: ✔️ Whenever possible, reference .edu and .gov sources ❌ Do not cite Wikipedia as your only source ...

Bashō’s haiku do more than render sensory images: within his travel writing, they also reveal interiority, shape narrative time, and point toward the Zen ideal of direct experience.

Beginning with the noun “leaves,” this essay builds a poem phrase by phrase and uses syntax trees to trace the grammatical structure that emerges.