"The Glorified Outcasts: a study of 'A Farewell' and 'Drifting on the Lake' by Wang Wei"

A Fargonwell

I dismount from my horse and drink your wine.

I lease where youre going

You say you are a failure

And need to hibernate at the foot of bass South Mountain

Once youre g whizz no one will ask about you.

There are endless white clouds on the mountain.

-Wang Wei

floating(a) on the Lake

Autumn is crisp and the firmament far,

especially far from where people live.

I look at cranes on the sand

and am immersed in joy when I see to it mountains beyond

the clouds.

Dust inks the crystal ripples.

Leisurely the white moon comes out.

Tonight I am with my oar, alone, and back end do

everything,

yet waver, not willing to return.

-Wang Wei

So many of the worlds great geniuses, poets, writers, and philosophers have been outcasts, besides perhaps this simple fact was what they used to rise in a higher place the masses, instead of below them. In Wang Weis poems A Farewell and Drifting on the Lake, we see two vocalisers who consider themselves outcasts of society. However, where one speaker despairs in it, the other uses it to lift himself up.

When reading these two poems in succession, ones first impression is how similar the two poems are.



In some(prenominal) poems, the reader is struck with a sense of some loneliness, solitary, and however very subtle notes of remorse. The tone of both poems seems to be one of some seriousness. In both poems, the author, Wang Wei, seems to be trying to pay heed to loftiness and being above something, as is evident in his word choices of clouds and mountains in severally of them. There is also, in each poem, a character that feels himself to be distinctly cut score from all of mankind. In A Farewell, the character who our speaker meets on...

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