Two questions [oddity]

Why alphabetize emotions
And why make blatant, the subtle?
    -- Shaxeb, "Sacrilege of Sorts"

(i)

angst bile cupidity devotion
ecstasy fantasy gratitude hope
impishness jealousy karuna love
modesty naiveté opulence pity

quietude rage solicitude temerity
unselfishness vanity wonder xenomania
yearning zealotry -- wherefore arrange
the rays of emotion so alphabetically?

though putatively poetically
the exercise proves strange

(ii)

the gossamer wing of a lithesome butterfly
reflected in fragments off a rippling rivulet
in an unnamed valley lost beyond forests
unseen by human eye since long centuries

was suddenly nabbed by an artist's imagination
in his cruel & unusual painterly ministration