Song Of Changgan

In stanza 12, she tells us that he has “bit her pretty red heart in two.” Next, she states that he died when she was ten, and when she was twenty years old, she attempted suicide - “…I tried to die, to get back back back to you.” In stanza 13 is where she starts talking about her husband. She says that instead of dying, her friends “stuck her together with glue,” and since she could not die to get back to her father, she would marry someone who was similar.

There are many examples of this with samples of these poems by Qianlong himself throughout the book and pictures of himself, mostly in a propaganda style though. The book gives a great short explanation of how Qianlong ruled the nation and how he lived in his home life. It details his wives and how much he liked them and what he did with them on their many travels together across the Chinese countryside. It goes into detail how much Qianlong was affected by the death of his first wife and how it might have had an affect on how he ruled from thereon. It shows that he was a loving person to his family and he treated his parents with as much respect and care for as he could give. There are descriptions of how Qianlong would go about his daily schedule and how hard it was to be in his position. It stresses how tough this job would be considering the events going on inside the nation and foreign threats. It covers his military campaigning and how he saw himself as a great warlord and giving himself the title “old man of ten perfect victories”. Elliott doesn’t go into extreme detail of each battle or conflict but it does mention all the major ones, especially the ones that Qianlong was most proud of. His international scene is covered very well. It describes how he went about his interactions with all the people that bordered china and those that came from afar. There are descriptions of how he interacted with the many religions of his nation being

The narrator does not value his wife’s poetry and therefore does not feel connected to her. The narrator remembers the first time his wife showed him the poem she wrote about Robert, and the narrator says, “I can remember I didn’t think much of the poem. Of course, I didn’t

In the beginning of the poem, the woman talks about being separated by, "friend" and a "lover. " We start to notice her tone change completely about those words near the end of the poem when she begins using those exact words in a more sarcastic way. The poem takes a drastic turn in section 42-50 when she starts to desire some type of revenge on her "friend." She starts to hope happiness to hie only later to become sufferage and hurt sorrows his way. The sentence that mostly impacts the story is her usage of friend.

Her looks have now faded and she has nothing else to offer in order to manipulate people. This brings on a feeling of loneliness for the lady. The speaker seems to be a maid who has lost her chance to get married. The poem gives the reader a feeling of sadness because the lady is a woman who has become a drug abuser and her drug use has led to her to become a prostitute. Despite this she is still happy about who she is even though she is wearing cheap clothing and is drunk. Even at the end of the poem when the cops take her away, she is happy and has pride about who she is as evidenced by her kisses blown to the crowd. At the time she may be going through hard times and her life is not the way she intended it to be she still has pride in who she is. The central theme of the poem is that throughout life people treat you differently as you become something you were not before. The poem, like “The Ruined Maid,” reflects on how since the woman has gone past the time to be married and has partied too much, she has lost her chance to become married. Kennedy attempts to make the point of the double standard between genders and how if the main character in the poem was a man, then these rules of marriage would not

The whole time while arguing, she is being called names and cannot take it. The woman wants to transform into a different shape, making it seems as if she is a different creature because she even goes on to describe the taste of blood. However, because she cannot grasp what true love is she is going crazy. Moreover, she describes herself extremely hungry and catches her sight and sees a killed bird in her mouth. Another poem, which is “Wings inside Our Stomachs” is of two broken people who cannot get along, married too young who are still childlike, and yet they eventually drifted apart.

the husband says, "What is it you see," / I will find out now--you must tell me, dear," (Lines 10, 12) which states problem solving technique from a man's side. The wife answers, "The wonder is I didn't see at once. / I never noticed it from here before. / I must be wonted to it--that's the reason" (Lines 21-23) showing the wife's overwhelming and emotionally involving period in her relationship with her husband. Solving these problems for the characters in the poem would "Depend on understanding the opposite sex" (Gray 30). If the characters knew the differences in "coping with stress" they would do something about their relationship.

She begins by describing herself falling asleep at night, imagining visions of herself with the men she has met throughout her life - “at night I fell asleep with visions of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them.” She then goes on to make herself feel even lower in the line “I was a singer, not a very popular one, who once had dreams of becoming a poet.” Just from these first few lines alone, the audience has already noticed the slow burn that this piece begins to whisper. She elaborates on the fact that being an unpopular singer is not the worst part - she always wanted to be a poet. It sounds like it was almost attained, but instead she is just a singer. The approval of the people around her is very important to her. Many people dread how others will perceive them, everybody just wants to be accepted. Often times

The climax of the poem is towards the end where the poet describes the man’s house, and gives a flashback of the man’s life back when he was still young and healthy. He remembers how he used to be strong, wearing a tweed hat and the way he loved music. He remembers the walkway he built between the house and the garage. However, that was back in the day when he was still healthy and strong. With time, he had grown into a very different person, as a result of his illness. The most perplexing thing that he had to deal with at the time, was the white haired woman standing in front of him at the door welcoming him back home; seemingly his wife.

Tempo and rhythm of the passage also play an essential role in influencing the moods. The moods of the passage are overwhelming intensity, envy, fear, and hopelessness. The poem begins with the mood of overwhelming intensity of the intimacy between the lovers. Then, the mood transitions to a state of envy and fear of which issues between the man and the woman are showing and clearly threaten the very foundation of the relationship. Lastly, the poem ends with a sense of hopelessness between the two; damage is done and the relationship is simply broken beyond repair. The poem is split into six stanzas; two six-line stanzas, one large stanza composed of a whopping 24 lines. Lastly, the last three stanzas are made up of two lines each and then a one-line stanza to conclude the

I find the sentiments to be ambiguous, as well. While my first instinct was that it’s a woman speaking about her lover/partner, that’s not concrete, either. When speaking of a relationship with such conflicting feelings of intimacy, love, or closeness (whatever one’s take on the poem is), that isn’t only found between lovers. It’s can also be had in the occasionally damaging love/hate relationships that can occur between adult children and parents, as well as other intimate relationships.

and she accepts the procedure to forget the relationship in order to goes on her life. We hear the important lines of the poem from her. She quotes the poem from the lines 207 to

From the very begging “The sun sets in molten gold. The evening clouds from a jade disk,” it is “natural” but wrong for us to speculate that this poem is really about “everlasting joy” filled in Linan (Southern Song’s capital). On the contrary, she then directly expresses her sadness by “This feast of Lanterns should be joyful. The weather is calm and lovely. But who can tell if it will be followed by wind and rain?”, with details like “A sad flute plays Falling Plum Blossoms” supporting the expression of her nostalgia that “I remember the happy days in the old capital.” Then she declined her friend’s invitation, preferred to stay beyond the curtains and listened to talk and laughter she could no longer share. Apparently, this poem vividly depicts the contradictory situation between the happiness in the city and the sadness on her mind and it creates an independent and stubborn female image in a period when women’s social and familial status was relatively menial. Qingzhao even aggressively criticized the rulers of escaping to the south instead of fighting against Jin. Not only her writing style became bold, audacious, and mighty, but also her personality became indomitable — she had a divorce with her second husband who abused her, which is hardly seen in Song times when women are suppressed to a state that it is illegal for women to sue their husbands. Basically, Li Qingzhao displays her strong female image not only in her writings

Then the theme of family relationships which links to the theme of replacement as well as regimentation is found again in all three stanzas but is most depressing in stanza three, for example the parenthesis of” (But the lovers are still in school)” meaning as soon as couples leave school and get married, the love in their relationship dies and neither parties in that relationship think as much of each other as they might of once done. Then with “Their beauty has thickened” and “Behind them, at intervals, stand husbands” both show their age and that they do not think as much of themselves and each other as time has taken its effect on both of them and “behind” meaning in position and time showing he’s in the back of her mind and not what she thinks of anymore.

This poem is a monolog and the poet is alone narrating the whole story as the speaker. The poem is about a man diagnosed with OCD who falls in love with a woman. The influence of this incident in the speaker’s life soon becomes evident as he says “The first time I saw her... Everything in my head went quiet. All the ticks, all the constantly refreshing images just disappeared.” Eventually, however, the woman starts ignoring what she used to love about the speaker’s behavior: “Some mornings I’d start kissing her goodbye but she’d just leave cause I was just making her late for work…” In the end, the woman decides that the speaker is “taking up too much of her time.” She leaves and starts “sleeping at her mother’s place”. The climax of the story