The memory of love in someone's mind has always been found in someone's poetry. It is hard to deny that poetry is one of the most fascinating writing and creative arts. There are so many poets in the history that get perceived as an admirable poet. It is not surprising that Ezra Pound is one of them because he had written the most beautiful poetry which is called The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter. This poetry is the glorious one that expresses the unspoken feelings of someone who have to separate from the lover into a love letter. Undoubtedly, it is a free verse poetry because it does not have a usual rhyme and a rule for stressed and unstressed syllables in the word each a line. It represents …show more content…
The speaker who be mentioned as "I" in the line 1 to 6 refers to a Chinese girl, herself in the past and the addressee who be identified as "You" refers to the speaker’s lover, a young boy, while they were still together as an innocent and a lively child. In the lines 1 to 6 in the poetry, the speaker shows about the nostalgia of her childhood with the lover when they were in the suburb of Nanking in China named Chokan. At the line 3 and 4: "You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.", the speaker displays the normal behavior of her lover as a child that have an uprightness in the mind through the "bamboo stilts" because in Chinese culture, the bamboo is one of the symbolic that shows about the honesty. She also reveals about the enthusiasm and energy of her and the lover when they were a child through the activity like "playing horse", because "a horse" in Chinese culture symbolizes an energy and eagerness. And at the line 6: "Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.", the speaker indicates that the two small people means herself and the lover that do not have any hatred because of the ingenuousness like a child that both of them used to …show more content…
The love in childhood comes with an innocent and mirthful love and the uncomfortable love is always being in the beginning of marriage life. Of course, a life after marriage is an adult love, and the constancy of heart should be a viewpoint of a marriage life without the spouse. It seems to me that the attitude of love is always changing when people grow up with an experience of life and sometimes the way to learn how to love is maybe not gather together, but separate from each