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
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Li Po, Dialogue Mountains, Li Pos, Drinking Moonlight, Rises Sets, li po, Ching-t`ing Mountain, li pos, own mind,
Approximate Word count = 995
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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