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ARTH193A Study Guide 6

1)Bash? on being one with nature.

2. Find three (3) haiku in the travel sketches which capture the poet’s sense of identity with nature (his being “one with nature”) during the various seasons.

3. How has Bash? been able to communicate his awareness of the mysterious life of things in the selected haiku?

4. What landscape elements encountered by Bash? on his journey might the European Romantics consider “Sublime?” What aspects of nature seem to fill Bash? with reverence and awe?

5. Bash? on sabi: