“Is there no moon? And is this springtime not the spring of times gone by? Myself alone remaining still the self it was before?” —Ariwara no Narihara, quoted in Christian Science Monitor “That autumn has

“Is there no moon?

And is this springtime not
the spring
of times gone by?
Myself alone remaining
still the self it was before?”
—Ariwara no Narihara,
quoted in Christian Science Monitor

“That autumn has come
appears nowhere with clarity
to the observing eye:
It is a new sound in the wind
by which we are somehow made aware.”
—Fujiwara no Toshiyuki,
quoted in Christian Science Monitor

In the second poem, which word shows that autumn’s arrival was a surprise?
a.
wind
c.
aware
b.
appears
d.
observing

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