To Transcend Duty Considered the greatest of China’s poets, Du Fu deserves the praise for his ability in conveying so many emotions in a single poem. Known as Confucian poet, Du Fu utilizes many Confucian principles in his poetry, especially those relating to family. Unlike Li Bai, a friend and fellow poet, Du Fu has many powerful poems written about his family. In reading these poems, something more than Confucian filial duty comes out, especially in the poems about his wife. As the relationship between husband and wife is one of the five Confucian relationships, it makes sense he would write about his duty to his wife, but Du Fu’s poetry shows how the depth and scope of his feelings surpasses mere duty. When they are parted, his desire to be with her almost physically wounds him with the pain he feels, which he conveys masterfully in his poetry. His life forces him away from his wife for large amounts of time, which is reflected in his work. Even though he is separated from her, he still maintains hope he will be with her again. The despair he feels about being parted from his wife is blindingly clear in “Moonlit …show more content…
In “Heaven’s River,” Du Fu establishes that hope. Although the poem is not specially about his wife, there is an implied promise made to her. He paints a scene of an autumn night, when the “Heaven’s River” (1) is the most clear and “the River / glows in the evening air” (7-8). It is on this night when two tragically separated lovers reunite. Once a year on this night, “Herd Boy [and] Weaving Girl” (13) can “cross the River” (14) and neither “wind nor wave” (15) can “stop them meeting there” (16). He and his wife are like them, separated by a distance that seems almost as vast as the infinite space between Herd Boy and Weaving Girl. In alluding to the star-crossed lovers, Du Fu promises his wife they will meet again, and that nothing will prevent him from returning to
...he imagery of the more intensely-felt passages in the middle of the poem. Perhaps the poet is like someone at their journey's end, `all passion spent', recollecting in tranquillity some intimations of mortality?
This poem simply explains Lorena’s true feelings towards the situation. How by her taking action she becomes free of the being under the control and mistreatment of her husband.
meeting, fighting, reconciliation. Dawe juxtaposes the characters with a metaphor “she was Sanyo-orientated”” He was Rank-arena bred”. The juxtaposition of the persona described with the metaphor suggest two very different backgrounds; like that of the Shakespearean Love classic Romeo and Juliet; Two characters of which have conflicting backgrounds yet still manage to uphold a passionate relationship. “A faulty tube led to their meeting” suggests the man may be repairing the TV also a fateful situation has brought them together; falling in love with the good Samaritan; having the woman propose he stay while with her “’watch me a while;’ she said …”. Dawe also uses visual imagery to explore the romantic genre. “They fell in love and shared a samboy crunching in the afterglow” creates a mental image of a romantic movie where two lovers relax together watching the sunset. Dawe climaxes the poem with a fight between the characters, in the fifth stanza where the two contest the program wished to be viewed; either “Candid camera” or “Twist and shout”. As with every classical love story the poem concludes with a typical
Power and Money do not Substitute Love and as it denotes, it is a deep feeling expressed by Feng Menglong who was in love with a public figure prostitute at his tender ages. Sadly, Feng Menglong was incapable to bear the expense of repossessing his lover. Eventually, a great merchant repossessed his lover, and that marked the end of their relationship. Feng Menglong was extremely affected through distress and desperation because of the separation and he ultimately, decided to express his desolation through poems. This incidence changed his perception and the way he represents women roles in his stories. In deed, Feng Menglong, is among a small number of writers who portrayed female as being strong and intelligent. We see a different picture build around women by many authors who profoundly tried to ignore the important role played by them in the society. Feng Menglong regards woman as being bright and brave and their value should never be weighed against
Through her use of the words “dreamed”, “sweet women”, “blossoms” and the Mythology of “Elysian fields” in lines one through three, she leads the reader to the assumption that this is a calm, graceful poem, perhaps about a dream or love. Within the first quatrain, line four (“I wove a garland for your living head”) serves to emphasise two things: it continues to demonstrate the ethereal diction and carefree tone, but it also leads the reader to the easy assumption that the subject of this poem is the lover of the speaker. Danae is belittled as an object and claimed by Jove, while Jove remains “golden” and godly. In lines seven and eight, “Jove the Bull” “bore away” at “Europa”. “Bore”, meaning to make a hole in something, emphasises the violent sexual imagery perpetrated in this poem.
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.
“In this poem, the night represents his destination — the poet’s own inner life, possibly self-knowledge. The poet, then, feels at least partially alienated from himself in much the same way that the night promotes a feeling of alienation from other people” (Kidd 2). Therefore, the reader can assume this rest of the poem is going to be about the narrator getting to know his place in this world while he is on a night stroll. The second line of stanza one states “I have walked out in rain –and back in rain” (Frost 157). His repetition of going in the rain twice emphasizes his miserable condition on this dark, rainy night. Nonetheless, he embraces nature and continues on with his walk past “the furthest city light” which tells the reader that he is now in complete darkness. Stanza two focuses primarily on his relationship with society. The narrator is casually walking in the city at night and sees the “saddest city lane” and
He begins with a shift, “ There they are, the moon’s young, trying/ Their wings.” (5-6), these lines make a shift because the tone before this line is more quiet and lonely, the tone after this line sounds more exciting. Then, he starts to talk about what he feels when he sees the birds, “There wings” here indicates the birds, and the birds is a metaphor that represents the inspiration in author’s life. “ young” and “trying” here allude to author himself, the author is trying to say that he is still young and he should still carry hope in his own darkness just like the birds. Right after that, he sees the woman, “ Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadow of her face,” (7-8) the author uses “ slender” and “lovely” these two words to describe the “woman” which we can tell how excited the author is to see someone else show up in this lonely and dark field. This part might also allude to the author’s love or hope of his life. The author then uses “ and now she steps into the air, now she is gone/ Wholly, into the air.” (8-9) to finish the twist or climax of the poem, then again the tone turns into peaceful but more lonely. In this line, has a repetition of “O” sound, so it is an assonance, and the “O” sounds has a hallow feelings which express that the author is really sentimental when the women is gone. In the line 8-9, there is a repetition of “she”, it
Robert Frost, an infamous poet best known for his original poetic technique, displays a reoccurring idea or theme of loneliness and isolation throughout many of his published works. The ways in which Frost represents and symbolizes ideas of solitude and desolation in poems are somehow slightly or very different. Loneliness and isolation are illustrated through Frost’s use of the dark night as well as depression in “Acquainted With the Night”, the objects the speaker encounters in “Waiting”, and the sense of abandonment and death in “Ghost House.”
Confucius represented how a group of people should act. It provided a moral compass and guidance for individuals to help them lead a meaningful and fulfilling life. In the excerpt, Dou exclaims that, “when [he] married [her] to the window’s son, [he] expected [her]t to observe the Three Duties and Four Virtues.” (Hanqing 457) This is referring to a common Confucianism practice in which the three duties or observances contain an obedient relationship to her father while she is still a young girl, later obedience to her husband and finally obedience to your son after your husband has passed away.
The reading of Shen Fu’s story gives one this sense of the mystery of happiness,which transcends all bodily sorrows and actual hardships—similar, I think, to the happiness of an innocent man condemned to a life-long sentence with the consciousness of having done no wrong, the same happiness that is so subtly depicted for us in Tolstoy’s “resurrection”, in which the spirit conquers the body. For this reason, I think the life of this couple is one of the saddest and yet at the same time “gayest” lives, the type of gaiety that bears sorrow so well.(Lin Yutang said in “Preface of ‘Six Chapters of a Floating Life’”)
During the Tang Dynasty, Li Po and Tu Fu have reigned the literary world with their poetry. Their writing techniques and themes in their poetry allow them to stand out amongst other poets at the time. With the unique aspects and images these poets write about, they distinguish the similarities between themselves and contain different intensities in their poetry. While Li Po has a more relaxed tone to his poetry, Tu Fu deals with the serious aspects of life such as war, poverty, and suffering.
The Wife?s Lament speaks movingly about loneliness, due to the speaker projecting the lonesomeness of the women who was exiled from society. The woman in the poem has been exiled from her husband and everything she loves, all she has is a single oak-tree to be comforted by. As she has been banished from all she loves, the tone becomes gloomy and depressing. The speaker uses expressions such as joyless and dark to create a sorrowful mood for the poem. As well as the expressions used in this poem, the setting also creates loneliness. The setting generates a darkened and desolate place which makes the woman feel exiled from society.
Kien reflects back on his memories with Phuong and says,“The lake became a symbol of Phuong in her beautiful youth, symbol of the marvels and grief of youth, of love and lost opportunities (132). The romantic experiences at the lake symbolize Phuong’s true character as an innocent, light hearted young teenager who is infatuated and lovestruck over her relationship with Kien. Kien’s pre war memory relates to “Phuong in her beautiful youth,” which helps develop her innocent, pure character throughout the novel. In the hope to preserve her pure love and innocence, Kien states “he dare not accept her challenge to make love to her” (137).
The character of this poem, right from the beginning feels a sadness that comes from the inner struggle between what society depicts as "should" and what a person really feels, "I feel a nameless sadness o'er me roll,/ yes, yes, we know that we can jest,/ we know we, we know that we can smile!/ But there's a something in this breast/ to which thy light words bring no rest." (3-7) There is the beginning sense here that he is starting to see conflict within himself, first characterized by his emotions.