Question

How do the senses used in the excerpt from "Digging" and the haiku affect a reader's understanding and interpretation of each? 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" focuses on sound devices to reveal its story, while the haiku focuses on visual imagery.

Answer 1

The senses are used to create imageries and feelings that make it easier for a reader to understand a text. In the excerpts from "Digging" and "The Haiku" different uses of the senses apply because;

• The excerpt from "Digging" focuses on sound devices to reveal its story, while the haiku focuses on visual imagery.

In the excerpt from "Digging", words that appeal to the senses of sound are used. Examples are, squelch, slap, and curt cuts. A curt cut is a blunt cut. These appeal to a person's sense of hearing.

In "The Haiku" visual imagery is used as the reader is made to imagine a chrysanthemum plant that looks sickly but is somehow budding.

Therefore, option D provides an accurate difference between the usage of the senses in the two texts.

Here is the excerpt:

From "Digging"

The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Read the haiku by Bashō.

Sickly, but somehow the chrysanthemum is budding.

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Answer 2

Answer:

D

Explanation: