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LONELINESS

• By
• Tu FU

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Nature Imagery

• A hawk hovers in air (1)
• Predator

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Nature Imagery

• Two white gulls float on the stream (2)
• Prey
• Easy target because of floating
• Reminiscent of Substance, Shadow Spirit
• Drift on the stream of infinite flux
• This poem demonstrates it is dangerous to drift

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Nature Imagery

• Soaring with the wind, it is easy/ To drop and
  seize/ Birds who foolishly drift with the
  current. (3-5)
• opposite message of Substance, Shadow Spirit
• To driftdeath

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Nature Imagery

• Where the dew sparkles in the grass/ The
  spiders web waits for its prey (6-7)
• Irony
• Sparkling dew
• Pleasant, pleasing, peaceful image
• Spiders web awaiting prey
• Disturbing, dangerous image
• Death is found everywhere in nature

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THEME

• The processes of nature resemble the business of
  men./ I stand alone with ten thousand sorrows
  (8-9)
• Processes of naturebusiness of men

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THEME

• Based on this poem, what is the poet saying about
  the processes of nature?
• Destructive
• Dangerous
• Brutal

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THEME

• Therefore, these negative views of nature
  symbolize the poets perception of humanity
• Result
• Loneliness (remember the title)
• Ten thousand sorrows