Chue Meng Vang
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
April 15,2009
Tu Fu Poetry
The two poems chosen for this LRJ are "Night Thoughts Afloat" and "Jade Flower Palace". The things the two poems have in common are common details, time, and lonliness. A detail both poems have in common is that both include the movement of the wind. From "Night Thoughts Afloat": "in a gentle wind"(2), and from "Jade Flower Palace": "The wind moans in the pines."(2-3). Both the poems speak of passing time. Night Thoughts Afloat:"Drifting, drifting,"(13) In that quote Tu Fu is drifting in time. The next qoute from Jade Flower Palace Tu Fu is also letting time slip by. "The future slips imperceptibly away."(18-19) In both poems Tu Fu is alone because the tone set by him is very sad in a lonely way.
The differences of the two poems are setting, and other distinctive differences. One of them is that Jade flower Palace uses more imagery than Night Thoughts Afloat while that poem uses more action words like "under", "drifting", and "hang". The other difference is the setting of the two poems. Jade Flower is near an abandoned palace, while Night Thoughts Afloat is at an unknown place.
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