Analysis Of Plums Are Falling

The poem Plums are Falling comes from one of Chinese’s classic of poetry, which is one of the oldest poetry collection in East Asia. According to the Norton Anthology of world literature, these poems reflect the breadth of early Chinese society, with themes such as courtship, marriage, and love, birth, and death. Songs based on Chinese culture are filled with the image of nature and the ugly life of an agricultural society. The Plums are Falling explicitly comes from the Airs of domain section of the classic of poetry, which is one of the youngest poems sections that is based on folks ballads from the Zhou kingdom. The classic of poetry are anonymous and give much different voice to various players in Zhou society such as kings, aristocrats and peasants, men and women in love, and, collectively, to communities as they celebrate the harvest or worship their ancestors. In Plums Are Falling, the author constructs the poem and carry out its meaning by using a series of repetition with small variance. The poet used a female character to narrate the poem, as she determines her chances at finding love. Furthermore, he used …show more content…
The speaker has reached the point where she has all the attention and where her decision will be hers and hers alone. The author changes the speaker 's tone from “let me have” (line. 4) to “let me be” (line. 12) to express the fact that she has found the qualities she wanted. She found suitors with both the physical appearance and the personalities to be her husband. The repetition of the lines “Plums Are Falling” suggest that the speaker still has some option between suitors. However, when the author uses the phrase “Catch them in baskets,” (Ln. 10) it shows that now she feels as if she is the one that has to persuade one of the suitors. She now has to prove her worth to the few suitors available; she only hopes that she is good enough to be a