In “The Man yoshu,” written by Chu, Harold Sung in 1974, the author conveys emotions and tells us something about the Japanese Culture. The main theme of the Manyoshu is love and the complications of loss and separation. The author shows this through two poems: “Thirteen Poems in the Praise of Wine,” and “A poem of Longing for His Children.” The two poems come from opposite sides of the class barrier, while speaking to the same issue: poverty and love. Both poems demonstrate the living people went through in Japan at those times. The characters in these two poems named above, handle situations different. Some get through it by ignoring the reality and some love unconditionally to make others feel appreciated and wealthy in emotions. Firstly,
Literature shows us the changes of our society from time to time. It also gives us an idea about people, culture, politics, gender traditions, as well as an overall view of previous civilizations. As a part of literature, poetry introduces us to different cultures with different perspectives. Ancient Egypt and ancient China may differ in terms of culture, politics, economic stability, tradition, or even in religious belief. However, in poetry, especially in love lyrics both Egyptian and Chinese poems portray common area of describing women, social attitudes toward love, sexuality and the existence of romance or selfishness in relationships. . If we look at the Egyptian poem “My god, my Lotus” and the Chinese poem “Fishhawk”, we will see both poems have similarities in describing relationships. Also, they have the similarity of imagining the lovers and their expression of love toward each other. However, both poems have some significant differences in terms of representing female sexuality, gender disparity and the display of love.
...the narrator and all people a way of finding meaning in their pains and joys. The two brothers again can live in brotherhood and harmony.
All the poems you have read are preoccupied with violence and/or death. Compare the ways in which the poets explore this preoccupation. What motivations or emotions do the poets suggest lie behind the preoccupation?
The poem told the story of a man who is inhibited by language, and has never quite had the ability to articulate his thoughts and feeling through words. It is said that his family members have tried
Man’yōshū is also known as the collection of ten thousand leaves but in a more literary and poetic sense could be portrayed as ten thousand generations. It is also seen as the earliest official oldest and greatest anthologies of Japanese poetry. Regardless of its name (could be seen as ten thousand poems) it actually only is composed of about 4,500 waka or 20 poem books. One distinction that could be made despite its popularity is it has no preface. Man’yōshū stands out because of its possession of passion, sincerity (or Makoto 真), pleasantness and most of all, it is really straightforward and to the point. In estimate, there are over 400 poets who are in most of the poems but half are anonymous. It is also well known for its wide range of social status among the authors which is a very rare case. Some authors come from the imperial family while others are just farmers or peasants. In fact the majority of the authors are not courtiers or of high status ranking officials. Then again they could be courtiers writing like commoners in disguise. There are many authors that are involved in the compilation of Man’yōshū such as Lady Kasa, Lady Ōtome, Emperor Yūryaku, Yamanoue no Okura, Yamabe no Akihito, and Princess Nukata, Kasa no Kanamura, Takahashi no Mushimaro but the major contributor would be Ōtomo no Yakamochi while the most important poet goes to Kakinomoto no Hitomaro. The last 4 books were created by Yakamochi, each containing notes on how the poems were written. Princess Nakata focused mainly of the two major seasons of spring and autumn; Yamanoue no Okura wrote most of his poems on social concerns of the public and made few on love and nature while Kakinomoto no Hitomaro worked on his own collection (Hitomaro kashū) and publ...
There is no greater bond then a boy and his father, the significant importance of having a father through your young life can help mold you to who you want to become without having emotional distraught or the fear of being neglected. This poem shows the importance in between the lines of how much love is deeply rooted between these two. In a boys life he must look up to his father as a mentor and his best friend, the father teaches the son as much as he can throughout his experience in life and build a strong relationship along the way. As the boy grows up after learning everything his father has taught him, he can provide help for his father at his old-age if problems were to come up in each others
In Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck Club” there are many themes and imagery throughout the book, but one theme that is relevant and stands out is the issue, “Cruel men? Weak men? Fair portrayal of men?” The novel is based on women in the Chinese traditional families, but does not discuss the men. What role do they play in their lives? Were they the people that made there lives unbearable? The men that will be looked upon are associated to the Jong, The Hsu, and the St. Clair family. Although many people would believe that the men in “The Joy Luck Club” were vindictive, they have shown that they not only are they feeble but that the weak men over power the cruel, and through their actions this statement will be apparent to all.
In his preface of the Kokinshū poet Ki no Tsurayaki wrote that poetry conveyed the “true heart” of people. And because poetry declares the true heart of people, poetry in the minds of the poets of the past believed that it also moved the hearts of the gods. It can be seen that in the ancient past that poetry had a great importance to the people of the time or at least to the poets of the past. In this paper I will describe two of some of the most important works in Japanese poetry the anthologies of the Man’yōshū and the Kokinshū. Both equally important as said by some scholars of Japanese literature, and both works contributing greatly to the culture of those who live in the land of the rising sun.
result it has on people. In all three poems the last line of the poems
that its namesake is a man who is supposed to be regarded as a hero.
In both of the selections, the author includes the ways in which they love the person they are talking about. In “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”, the author explains, “I love thee with the passion put to use” (Browning 9). This quote can be paraphrased to mean “I love you passionately”. In “Beloved, my Beloved, when I think”, the author says,”No moment at thy voice...but, link by link, / Went counting all my chains” (Browning 5-6). This quote can mean “ When i would think of my love, it would hold me back”, this quote shows the love that the author has for their past loved one. The quotes both show a love relationship, the difference is, is that in “Beloved, my Beloved, when I think”, the poem does not take a direct approach to say “I love you”, instead, the author tells about how much they miss their loved one.
“I, too, dislike it: There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.” Poetry has been around for a long time. As the years go by poetry adapts to the time period. However, the authors have different views. Majority of them will read and enjoy all types of poem, but they have their own opinions. The new, has to be truly unique to the author and to the time period. Shakespeare still had plays that we study, but it is hard to comprehend the message behind the words. Worlds change and the literature's change with the trends. The important question is how it should change. During each time period there are people that publish their opinions, but different people have different ideas. Within Poetry and Of Modern Poetry shows the similarities and differences between the two authors, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore through three ways: is of the mind, it has to be genuine and it has to be unique to the people writing it.
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
Authors use poetry to creatively present attitudes and opinions. “A Man’s Requirements,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” are two poems with distinct attitudes about love that contain different literary approaches. In both of the poems, love is addressed from a different perspective, producing the difference in expectation and presentation, but both suggest the women are subservient in the relationships.
...ce of outside forces. However, the male-female love still exists in the world because the world in reality is a play where each being can write their script. In poetry reality holds no limitations. Even though the lover’s love is not true, it exists in the world because of the human being’s fight to preserve it. True love may only be able to exist in the female-friendship as shown in the play, but love in relationships still exists because the world allows any being willing to become a poet to be one. Any person can preserve a dream of false love and turn it into true love is they are willing to believe it possible. True love can only exist without penetration, domination, desire, or loss of identity, which exist in male-female love. However, love exists in this relationship because poetry has the ability to transfer this love away from a dream and into existance.