Edited sentence: As an example:.Basho saw his haiku poetry as designed to capture with surgical precision the moment of insight when the eternal enters our world.Basho saw poetry as a process of meditation concerned with the art of describing the brief appearances of the everlasting self, of eternity, in the circumstances of the world.Even at horses,.Everything is now dazzling white and the poor pack-horses that the eyes of the humans had avoided from pity or indifference the day before are now objects of wonder as the stand out in the landscape.How little this might mean until we begin to imagine people opening the door on a bright morning after a snowstorm.In a more lonely and perhaps more profound pilgrimage than Chaucer depicted in the Canterbury Tales, Dr Samuel Johnson in Rasselas, or, in more recent times, Cormac McCarthy in The Road, Basho reflects on mortality in intermingled poetry and prose as he journeys north from shrine to shrine.Our reading intellectual rubs against the words, till it parts to let insight reveal the meaning, the ethical truth.So are the years that pass by.The place of this text in the global literary canon seems assured.This morn of snow.Those readers whose consciousness may be incapable or only partially aware of such a revelation, are given the chance to obtain a fresh and more ethical way of looking at the world.Those who steer a boat across the sea, or drive a horse over the earth till they succumb to the weight of years, spend every minute of their lives travelling.We gaze.We get a sense of this ethical purpose in his writing at the commencement of Narrow Road to the Deep North.“Days and months are travellers of eternity