A house overrun with vines and with bamboo shoots are poking through is a symbol of decay as much as new life- possibly the most depressing scene I’ve seen in the US was an elementary school in Gary, IN with a tree branch growing out of a window and the sign which used to bear announcements reading “Goodbye (school name)”.
I think that's in there! I read the poem as looking more at nature than at the house. There's a striking contrast between the first half, where nature pierces and pushes, and the second half, where nature is soft and silky. Du Fu sees both sides of nature, and yeah, his house is a victim of nature's harder side.
Same thing with both stanzas of this poem. They both go ABABABBA.
I feel like Du's purpose in placing the two lines in this highly parallel structure is to blend them together, superimpose, even confuse them, so that's what I'm trying to reflect: tangling them up like two threads in a clump together.
A house overrun with vines and with bamboo shoots are poking through is a symbol of decay as much as new life- possibly the most depressing scene I’ve seen in the US was an elementary school in Gary, IN with a tree branch growing out of a window and the sign which used to bear announcements reading “Goodbye (school name)”.
Is this what I’m supposed to be seeing here?
I think that's in there! I read the poem as looking more at nature than at the house. There's a striking contrast between the first half, where nature pierces and pushes, and the second half, where nature is soft and silky. Du Fu sees both sides of nature, and yeah, his house is a victim of nature's harder side.
Similarly to number 4, should those last two lines be the other way around, or do they merge with one another (and does "wisps" need an apostrophe)?
Same thing with both stanzas of this poem. They both go ABABABBA.
I feel like Du's purpose in placing the two lines in this highly parallel structure is to blend them together, superimpose, even confuse them, so that's what I'm trying to reflect: tangling them up like two threads in a clump together.