The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Comments

The longing to be with her beloved has been brought out touchingly.

The poetry has touching lines... it's very well composed like a tiny story.

very nice... thanks for sharing

Li Po was A Tang dynasty poet, more famous for drinking songs than of marital fidelity. The poem is a delicate, almost subliminal one of growing love. It starts as childish acquaintance, growing to acceptance of the traditional pairing and marriage that ensued. It ends with the expressed deep love of the river merchant's wife. Ezra Pound was a fascist. But in poetry, perhaps, there is no politics, only insight, emotion, and sensibility.

this is a letter of dilemma and complain by the wife of the river merchant... it started with how they met, got married, the wife fell in love with her husband and how much the wife is waiting for her husband to come home... it tells about how much the wife trusted the husband that she needn't go to the watch tower and how much she complains that her husband was so long gone; furthermore, it shows her dilemma that maybe her husband, though she knew she trusted, would have forgotten about her... A nice poem.. ^_^