Written report

CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE LITERATURE

A WIFE MOURNS FOR HER HUSBAND BY CONFUCIUS

WHO IS CONFUCIUS?

The dolichos grows and covers the thorn,

O’er the waste is the dragon-plant creeping.
The man of my heart is away and I mourn–
What home have I, lonely and weeping?

Covering the jujubes the dolichos grows,

The graves many dragon-plants cover;
But where is the man on whose breast I’d repose?
No home have I, having no lover!

Fair to see was the pillow of horn,

And fair the bed-chamber’s adorning;
But the man of my heart is not here, and I mourn
All alone, and wait for the morning.

While the long days of summer pass over my head,

And long winter nights leave their traces,
I’m alone! Till a hundred of years shall have fled,
And then I shall meet his embraces.

Through the long winter nights I am burdened with fears,

Through the long summer days I am lonely;
But when time shall have counted its hundreds of years
I then shall be his–and his only
The poem is all about true love. Marriage is said to be a lifetime commitment to a man. The pain and
happiness of marriage are said to be the spices of married life. But what if you have to say good bye for
a reason? Would it be fair if death separates the couple?

Speaker of the poem: wife

Content: all about the mourning of the wife on her beloved husband’s absence

Theme: true love, it depicts the sorrow and anguish of the wife whose husband is gone

You may notice in every stanza, mostly at the end of the first and third line have a rhythm