Answer:
I would have to guess mystery, possibly fiction.
Explanation:
I can't really tell you what it is, but I can give you the definition of each of those terms.
"Ode is a formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. Its stanza forms vary. The Greek or Pindaric (Pindar, ca. 552–442 B.C.E."
"Sonnet is a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme also : a poem in this pattern."
"A haiku is considered to be more than a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the physical world and seeing something deeper, like the very nature of existence. It should leave the reader with a strong feeling or impression."
"The sestina follows a strict pattern of the repetition of the initial six end-words of the first stanza through the remaining five six-line stanzas, culminating in a three-line envoi. The lines may be of any length, though in its initial incarnation, the sestina followed a syllabic restriction."
*Not my words!*
Hope this helps!
The answer is: to recall Zeitoun’s foreign birth and the universality of struggles against nature
Zeitoun grown up in a coastal town, Jableh, in Syria, his father was a ship captain and when he and his brother drown to be sailor as well, after many year in the sea he stablishes in New Orleans, in the story is describes the great storm that evokes his memory of the island, this shows Zeitoun birth town and also that the nature forces universality.