This poem recalls a time of innocence when one figure was "playing with blue plums" or walking on stilts, while the narrator was pulling flowers.
This poem recalls a time of innocence when one figure was "playing with blue plums" or walking on stilts, while the narrator was pulling flowers. This poem recounts how "at fifteen I stopped scowling" and "desired my dust to be mingled with yours." That time of innocence is described as when "my hair was still cut straight across my forehead," which must have been long before the addressee went to "the river of swirling eddies." Its narrator, who "at fourteen... married My Lord you," promises that she "will come out to meet you/ as far as Cho-fu-sa." For 10 points, name this poem, translated from Li Po by Ezra Pound.
This poem recalls a time of innocence when one figure was "playing with blue plums" or walking on stilts, while the narrator was pulling flowers.
"The {River Merchant's Wife}: A Letter"