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The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Li Po Origin •South East Asia/China Li Po • • • • • • • T’ang Dynasty Golden Age of Poetry Free spirited poetry Graceful and lyrical style Moved frequently Lived in exile Influenced by Taoist thought and Neo-Taost thought • Poetry conveys his love for freedom Persona • The characters assumed by the speaker of the poem, novel, or short story. • Not who the author actually is • Often times in Chinese poetry, the author and the speaker are very different Poem • Persona (mask in Latin) think about the author putting on a mask of the character to reveal the story or message through the character’s point of view • Song-like poem (ballad) • Tells a story The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter • Persona- the speaker is a young woman waiting for the return of her husband • Her husband has gone on a long and dangerous journey up the Yangtze River • Li Po has put on the “mask” of the rivermerchant’s wife to narrate this letter What characters take on a different persona? • Hannah Montana • Superman • Batman • Spiderman
