Question

Read the first haiku.

Mountain-rose petals
falling, falling, falling now . . .
waterfall music

Now, read the second haiku.

By that fallen house
the pear-tree stands full-blooming . . .
an ancient battle-site

What theme do both haiku have in common?

Answer 1

The answer is A. beauty endures, even among destruction.

Answer 2

In both haiku you can see that the theme is the melody made by the nature, the original creator of tune, both poems evoke the imagery of a natural landscape where the thing that belong to it made music with their natural movement.