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English, 21.01.2020 03:31 mimithurmond03

Read the excerpt from "digging."

he rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
to scatter new potatoes that we picked,
loving their cool hardness in our hands.

by god, the old man could handle a spade.
just like his old man.

my grandfather cut more turf in a day
than any other man on toner’s bog.
once i carried him milk in a bottle
corked sloppily with paper.

read the haiku by bashō.

sickly,
but somehow the chrysanthemum
is budding.

which statement best describes the difference between the excerpt from "digging” and the haiku?

the excerpt from “digging” relies much more heavily on images of nature to convey its main idea than the haiku does.

the excerpt from “digging” uses lines of equal length throughout, while the lines of the haiku are of varying lengths.

the excerpt from “digging” discusses the relationship between writing and farming, while the haiku only discusses nature.

the excerpt from “digging” shifts from one moment in time to another, while the haiku describes a single moment in time.

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