Haiku by Issa
Abel
The moth saw brightness
in a woman's chamber-
burnt to a crisp
An excerpt from "Elegiac Verses" by William
Wordsworth
Full soon in sorrow did I weep,
Taught that the mutual hope was dust,
In sorrow, but for higher trust,
How miserably deep!
All vanished in a single word,
A breath, a sound, and scarcely heard.
Sea-Ship-drowned—Shipwreck—so it
came,
The meek, the brave, the good, was gone;
He who had been our living John
Was nothing but a name.
What motif is addressed in both forms of poetry?
romance
the ocean
the outdoors
death