The speaker's message is always unclear and the reader has to pay close attention to their reading.

1 Chang Gan is a village in present day Jiang Ning County, in Jiang Su Provence. Log in or register to write something here or to contact authors. It also serves to open the text to associations not present for a contemporary Chinese reader. An English language reader without knowledge of that place or time would find these exotic. What details does Hemingway use to reveal more about the main character?


By projecting emotional states on the surrounding landscape and observations, Pound expresses his speaker's emotional, mental, and spiritual state indirectly.

She wants to know if they can meet up with each other. He had never been back when he left five months ago. She will always desire him, from each moment to each moment, and that desire results in the longing expressed through the end of the poem. Through use of central, dynamic images, emotional projection on observations, and the flowing passage of time, Pound evocatively expresses the emotion of longing his speaker has for her husband in The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter. Forever and forever, and forever. What contrast is set up in the first two stanzas of "the Garden"?

The words "five months" is showing that he had been gone for a long time. The most famous and successful of Pound's renderings in Cathay is The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter, which begins: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. what happened to her at 16? The transition from "without dislike or suspicion" to "mingled...forever and forever," happens in the third paragraph, "at fifteen I stopped scowling, I desired my dust to be with yours."

(in "Soldier's Home"), "Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ezra_pound_chinese.html. The word "we" is showing that they had a good friendship with each other. The speaker's love for her husband comes as a quiet reversal, the softly passionate words of a woman who was previously silent, and who has been apart from a new love for too long.
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind. This method of relation summons scenes of the husband and wife travelling together along life's journey, with the dust kicked up by their footsteps intermingled in their companionship. Did the wife always love her husband? This is showing that there love was stronger for each other than in the beginning. Dust symbolizes a complete life cycle, from cradle to the grave, giving the wife's love for her husband more depth. The river-merchant’s wife fell in love with her husband when she was fifteen. respect, culture.