In “The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter”, Li Po juxtaposes diction that describes the childhood of the girl and the boy to stress the idea of Daoism, or Yin-Yang, in the first stanza, thus indicating that every part of nature consists of opposites that merge in together. Li Po embarks the poem with the description of the merchant’s wife when she first met her husband as a child, “...my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played...pulling flowers” (1-2). The words as “cut” and “straight” give the impressions of unnaturalness and obedience of the little girl, while the word “pulling flower” urges the reader to think of the force against the beauty of the nature. These diction delineates that while the nature is the yin, it also
