The River Merchant's Wife Analysis

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Life of the Merchant’s Wife Every love story has its own beginning, and every love story has its own character. Let’s go back in the 19th century and imagine a living as merchant’s life, it must be hard at some point. According to the poem “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound is about a young Chinese girl who was a merchant’s wife, the speaker describes her feeling while writing the letter. At the beginning she described her first meeting with her husband, than she writes, how her life changed while her husband was gone for a work at the river. I believe that the poem has very interesting points, which is shown by the lines and at some moments the poem sounds very nostalgic. …show more content…

In the other words she missed him a lot, that she would meet him up at least once, it shows that she stays loyal to him, adores him and wants to be with her childhood lover. As far as I am concerned, according to the poem, it showed how depressed is the speaker, her husband haven’t been with her for a while and she missed him very much. Well she was very young when she got married, and she had a lot to learn, plus when she was sixteen and her husband went to work as a Merchant of the River, which made her life even more difficult, because she was growing alone and she had to do everything by herself. The poem is very nostalgic and it gives a reader an idea of the speakers feeling. She likes to connect monkeys and butterflies to the world, because it makes the letter more

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