Haiku poetry originated in Japanese culture and combines appearance, content, and verbal communication in a compact form. Haikus typically focus on everyday themes like nature or feelings and use simple words and grammar structured in three short lines. Eisenstein found that haikus simulate the visual conflict created by montage cinema techniques. Like how combining hieroglyphs of simple concepts creates new meanings, haikus combine words and images to imply new ideas. This is similar to how montage shots in film combine single depictions into new intellectual contexts and meanings. Haikus can therefore be adapted into visual montages that represent the poems through symbolic photographic or film images.