Feng Zhi was a Chinese poet born in the 1900s who wrote “Sonnet 4”, a piece about self-discovery and and philosophical teachings. Specifically, Zhi connects his writing to the teaching of Confucius, the founder of Confucianism. Some Confucian teaching are filial piety, loyalty, discipline, nobility, righteousness, and integrity. Zhi’s words are laced with these themes and he integrates them. So on, Zhi describes filial piety. He writes, “Never failed to deserve a name; And yet you elude all possible names” (4-5). This expresses that words cannot describe the actions of the pale-white weed because words cannot contain its righteousness. It is important to honor the family name and to have filial piety, and while the weed does this, it does
