Read the excerpt from "digging." between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun. under my window, a clean rasping sound when the spade sinks into gravelly ground: my father, digging. i look down till his straining rump among the flowerbeds bends low, comes up twenty years away stooping in rhythm through potato drills where he was digging. read the haiku by bashō. a crow has settled on a bare branch— autumn evening. how does the structure of these poems differ? "digging" is a one-stanza poem with many lines, while bashō's haiku has multiple stanzas with few lines. "digging" is a long poem with no sound devices, while bashō's haiku is a short poem with many sound devices. "digging" has many stanzas of equal length, while bashō's haiku has many stanzas of varying lengths. "digging" has multiple stanzas of varying length, while bashō's haiku has only one stanza of three lines.

“Digging” has multiple stanzas of varying length, while Bashō's haiku has only one stanza of three lines. (last option)

Explanation:

Seamus Heaney's “Digging” has eight stanzas; some of them have two lines; some, three or four lines; one stanza has five lines, and one more stanza has eight lines.  

Bashō's haiku has only one stanza of three lines.

the illustration   that would give a reader a clear understanding of the text is a picture of men constructing the frame of a building.the frame is made of iron bars. the text describes the job of blacksmiths'. these were very organised and they had different names: "the driver" and "the heater". the text describes the way in which these men worked ; they worked iron pieces as if they were playing a sport. in fact, the text wants to show the men's skills. the text also puts some emphasis on the use of '' rivets'' in construction. this kind of nails were not always used in the construction of manhattan.

some examples:

"and with an underhand toss he hurled the smoking rivet straight at the catcher, who caught it in mid-air in his catching can." men's skills

"when the driver was ready for a new " the emphasis on the rivet ( special nail used in construction).

" it against a beam to remove any cinders, and jammed it into the waiting hole. " the emphasis on the rivet.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human