Question

Read the following poems, and then answer the question below:

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(Japanese – Ono no Komachi translated by Donald Keene)

The flowers withered

Their colors faded away

While meaninglessly

I spent my days in the world

And the long rains were falling


I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth—
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth—
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried