'The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter'

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What writing really is? Why do I often choose writing as the method to record my innermost voice? Can I influence the readers through my writing? These are all the questions that often pop to my Writing is much more powerful than what we think. Many unexpected knowledge and personal reflection can be learned through writing. In writing, writers often have more than one purpose. They can write to share their emotions, but instead, they write to influence their audience’s fundamental thinking.
There are many ways to approach the audience—writing or speaking. In my point of view, writing is a much more efficient way to get certain ideas through. Not only does writing provide for a more elaborate argument on behalf of the writer; it allows the
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This sort of writing tend to help writers to sort out their emotions and put a priority on the ones that affect us the most. In Ezra Pound’s poem, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: a Letter”, I felt a sense of hope and expectation through his simple, yet powerful style of writing. Pound uses simple words and specific details when he writes, “At sixteen you departed, /You went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies, /And you have been gone five months. /The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead. /You dragged your feet when you went out. By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses, /Too deep to clear them away!” to express a story of a lady’s transformation from a teenager to someone’s wife, and how she aged (1190). The diction that he chose here is simple, but elevates his purpose and drags me into his world. What I learned while analyzing this poem is that writing is the only way that I am can comfortably deliver my voice to others, such as difficulties that I face. The feelings that I put in my writings often surprise myself and force me to question my reasoning. I write to find out what I am thinking because I do not like to share my innermost thoughts in conversations, but I am comfortable to do it in writing. In writing, I want to convey the audience to support my

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