English

Michael Bush

5 August, 11:01

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