In the poem “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” Ezra Pound describes Li T’ai Po’s growing love for her husband. Pound impacts the meaning of the poem through his choice of structure and imagery.
In stanza 1, the author establishes the presence of I and you and how Li and her lover knew each other in their childhood. Li states “I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts playing horse” which means that she noticed her loverplaying while she was picking flowers. She also says “And we went on living in the village of Chokan” which shows that Li and her loved one lived near each other in their early years. Lastly Li says “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion” which allows us to determine that Li felt
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On line 19 it states “You dragged your feet when you went out”. This leaves the reader to imagine that Li’s husband doesn't want to leave. In addition to this on line 3 it's said that “You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse: You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums”. This shows repetition because it shows Li following her lover’s movements while using “you came” or “you walked”. Lastly on line 12 Li said “I desired my dust to be mingled with yours” which means that she only wants to be with her beloved.
After stanza 3, the story shifts from a love story to a separation between two lovers. Their love is shown on lines 12 and 13 when Li states “I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever”. This shows Li’s eternal love for her husband. On line 15 it says “At sixteen you departed” which implies that Li and her husband had been separated due to personal reason. The meaning of the poem is that a woman shows a growing love for her husband and this is shown in line 29 when Li says “And I will come out to meet you” which means she is willing to travel a vast distance to see her loved
“I Beg of You, Chung Tzu” and “Thick Grow the Rush Leaves” share many similarities. For example, both poems include refrains, a typical element of Chinese poetry in which word phrases are repeated at regular intervals. The refrain, “Chung Tzu I dearly love,” from “I Beg of You, Chung Tzu” and the refrain, “He whom I love,” from “Thick Grow the Rush Leaves” both emphasize the emotions each speaker feel for her beloved. In addition, the poems share the Chinese poetic
The poem is a combination of beauty and poignancy. It is a discovery in a trajectory path of rise and fall of human values and modernity. She is a sole traveler, a traveler apart in a literary romp afresh, tracing the thinning line of time and action.
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
At the beginning of the poem, the audience is able to witness an event of a young boy asking his father for story. While the father was deemed a “sad” man, it is later shown that his sadness can be contributed to his fear of his son leaving him. The structure then correlated to the point of going into the future. The future was able to depict what would happen to the loving duo. The father's dreams would become a reality and the son's love and admiration would cease to exist as he is seen screaming at his father. Wanting nothing to do with him. The young, pure child can be seen trying to back lash at his father for acting like a “god” that he can “never disappoint.” The point of this structure was not really a means of clarification from the beginning point of view, but more as an intro to the end. The real relationship can be seen in line 20, where it is mentioned that the relationship between the father and son is “an emotional rather than logical equation.” The love between this father and son, and all its complexity has no real solution. But rather a means of love; the feelings a parent has for wanting to protect their child and the child itself wanting to be set free from their parents grasp. The structure alone is quite complex. Seeing the present time frame of the father and son
The situations are not similar in the scenario, but equal in the tone of the poem. The authors show the break-up of a relationship through the pain of a separation and the loss of a partner. Sometimes one faces challenging situations and learns to survive the bad outcomes with bravery. The ideal and desired love turned into regret and depression. The romanticize concept of eternal love is broken with separation: “[t]he myth of marriage goes like this: somewhere out there is the perfect soul mate, the yin that meshes easily and effortlessly with your yang. And then there is the reality of marriage, which, as any spouse knows, is not unlike what Thomas Edison once said about genius: 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” (Kantrowitz and Wingert). The sharing of love and joy, when one starts a relationship, does not come with the answers to all questions if in the end the love is gone, and one is looking for closure. The memory of what they had one day cannot replace the bitterness of what was left, after all. In the end, it turns out to not be what one expected. The butterflies fly away, leaving
The story of this poem tells about a young boy that is lured in by the sensuousness of the moon, and then dies because of his own desire for her. The symbolic meaning is much more hidden and disguised by the literary elements of the poem. The storyline and aspects of the literal story add meaning when searching for the figurative meaning. The warning learned from this poem is that infatuation with anything can lead to a downfall. The moon seemed to offer a comfort that attracted him, but it was only a disguise to lead him to death. The passion the young boy felt for the moon can easily be modified to describe the passion a person can feel for anything. The young boy saw safeness in the moon that brought him closer to her. Any obsession will seem to offer the same comforts that the young boy also saw, but this poem warns that death can always disguise itself.
The poem states not clearly, but profoundly that all this pair needs is each other, and that this trip or journey to give a little old lady some much needed food and money is more of a joyous occasion simply because of the company of each other. This memory, this recollection, though it includes the mother, is not about her, it is about the pair travelling together and using the time to enjoy the little things in life; a ride on a ferry, time spent laying together on a moonlit hillside, watching the sun rise after a long night of travelling. Whatever it is truly about, the one thing most important to the author is the memory itself.
Alison in the Miller's Tale and May of the Merchant's Tale are similar in several ways. Both are young women who have married men much older than themselves. They both become involved with young, manipulative men. They also conspire to and do cuckold their husbands. This is not what marriage is about and it is demonstrated in both tales. What makes the Miller's Tale bawdy comedy and the Merchant's tale bitter satire is in the characterization. In the Miller's tale we are giving stereotyped characters. The principals are cardboard cut-outs sent into farcical motion. The Merchant's Tale gives us much more background and detail of the character's lives. The reader is more involved and can feel their situations. Here we will focus on the two women of each tale and how they demonstrate this difference.
However there is an unexpected twist where the poet just calms down and thinks he can find love again. This shows the poet’s structure of the poem and how ... ... middle of paper ... ... ion and repetition. Another comparison between the two poems is we are both hearing the viewpoint from the poet not from anybody else.
They let the things that can separate them bring them closer to each other. This poem teaches its readers that love takes sacrifice. Towards the ending on the poem the poet expresses what she is feeling, “She smiled, stretched her arms to take to heart the eldest daughter of her youngest son a quarter century away.” (Ling, 142) The quote shows that the poet traveled halfway around the world to meet her grandmother that she couldn’t communicate with.To sum up the poem, “Grandma Ling,” both the poet and the grandmother take huge sacrifices to see each other. The whole poem represents that love takes
“The life so short, the craft so long to learn” (Famous Quotes). The Canterbury Tales is enriched with humanistic merit that allows the reader to sharpen his or her own craft of life. Specifically, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and “The Clerk’s Tale” are embodied with multiple struggles of life that pertain to life in the present. Despite seven centuries of society constantly evolving, the two stories’ plots can still be further analyzed through similar themes about relationships that pertain to modern society and how rhetorical strategy allows the audience to relate to the narrative characters.
In the first stanza, “one leaned on the other as if to throw her down” symbolism has been used to show the intensity of the embrace between the two. In stanza two, “and finally almost uprooted him” symbolism has been used to show how much the female dominates in this relationship. “He was thin, dry, insecure one” this symbolized that the male did not have much power nor say in the relationship.
The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife is a medieval tale found in A thousand and One Nights. It is roughly 2 pages long. The story, involving talking animals, is considered a fable. In A Thousand and One Nights, The king finds that his wife is cheating on him and then kills her and her lover. Because he does not want to give any woman the chance to hurt him, he kills them the next day after sleeping with them.
The regular rhythm gives the text a songlike quality. As indicated by the cycle’s title, the poem is one of several songs of a vagrant minstrel. However, this poem is not about courting a woman. It is a “poem of renunciation”. The speaker prefers to leave the other person “rather than to trouble her even with the mere telling of ‘Menschen müh und weh’”.