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Comparing Xing's Peach Tree Soft And Tender '

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One of these other intentions is the use of comparisons by the writers to connect nature with that of everyday human life. For instance, in “Peach Tree Soft and Tender” the writer compares a blossoming peach tree with a newlywed bride adjusting to her new home and family. As the fruit of the peach tree blossoms so does her acquaintance with her new home stated on the bottom two lines of the final stanza, “The bride is going to her home, she well befits these folks”(1324). Also, in “Fishhawk” comparisons made between a prince and the cultivation of the watercress to express his restlessness of his longing for a “gentle maiden”(1323) whom he sees; comparing the way the watercress is harvested to the ways of which he courts the woman. First, as …show more content…

Xing brings natural images into suggestive resonance with human situations, stimulating the imagination”(Puchner 1322), and it is applied on the lyric poems of The Classic of Poetry in works like “Peach Tree Soft and Tender” and “Huge Rat.” Although one might lose track of the position where in these poems xing is located through its antiquated language, carefully analyzed one can find the xing in every poem of The Classic of Poetry. For example, the story of “Peach Tree Soft and Tender” the evocative image would appear along with the primary comparison of the bride adapting to her new home with a blossoming peach tree. The other work worth discussing, “Huge Rat”, is about a worker who feels unappreciated by a rodent who lives off him and threatens to move away. But unlike “Peach Tree Soft and Tender”, “Huge Rat” takes advantage of evocative image, for now it can go into detail of the subtext of the story. See on the surface it sounds like a silly story about a farmer and his rat, but The Classic of Poetry was taught for hundreds of years because of its usefulness to criticize politics, and “Huge Rat” criticizes bad rulers who take advantage of the working class. That is why in the poem the farmer threatens to move away, he, “swear[s] that [he] leave [it] and go to happy meadows … where none need wail and cry”(1328) because he realizes that without the working class the ruler will lose its

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