A Look Into Li Po
The first poem I read by Li Po was enchanting. The mere title, "The Sun Rises and Sets", put a calming picture into my head. He explains to the audience that the sun does a job day in and day out for the world to survive. He uses the example of how trees don't hate to lose their leaves in autumn because it's a way of life for the tree. Everyone and everything has a way of life and an unforeseen future. Li Po puts this blatantly into his poem saying, "The rise and the ending of all things is just the way things are"(1380). I believe this was the general thinking of Li Po and he liked to go the way his mind pointed. He didn't care to impress emperors or high officials to become high society, but liked to drink and write poetry for himself and his followers. It was destiny for people to like him and his work and that was all the satisfaction in life that he wanted. Then at some point in Li Po's life he seemed very depressed. There are many references to drinking and loneliness in his poems. The poem he wrote, "My Feelings" ,shows signs of rejection and solitude. Li Po paints a picture in this poem of him looking into a wine glass thinking. He then gets up drunk and steps on the moon in the cree
He was a poet that enjoyed life as a dream. He wasn't concerned with his character or moral status, because he had a gift. Li Po's gift has been enjoyed for thousands of years. He had the gift to write outstanding poetry that brought you into his mind. It let you imagine the beauty of nature and the despair of loneliness. Li Po did achieve the goal of having a legacy all the while bringing imagination and appreciation out of thousands of individuals. k ,which is of course a reflection, but brings a clear perception to mind. He then switches from what seems to be a night of drinking and thinking to rejecting himself. He acknowledges the men and the birds are turning back and growing fewer. Although this does seem to be the direction the poem was going in had it been longer, I don't think Li Po cared about friends. I think Li Po knew he had followers and although he was known as a drunkard he was respected for his genius. away. Last, Li Po is stuck looking at the mountain. Many people could just read this and make no sense out of it. Li Po uses nature as a backdrop in his poem "Sitting Alone by Ching-t`ing Mountain". First, all the birds fly high and out of the distance. Next, a cloud goes slow and Li Po was one of many poets of this time but was the only one not to take a literary examination. This could possibly be the rejection he is talking about in his poems. Even though in Li Po's own mind he knew his genius was not comparable to other poets of th
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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