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    This document provides information about the influential Chinese philosopher Confucius. It discusses that Confucius was a teacher and political figure known for his aphorisms and models of social interaction. His teachings focused on creating ethical models for family and public life, as well as setting educational standards. Some of Confucius's key philosophical ideas included the importance of living virtuously, filial piety, ancestor worship, and emphasizing personal and governmental morality. The document also provides a poem attributed to Confucius called "A Wife Mourns For Her Husband" that expresses the speaker's grief and loneliness over her husband's absence.

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    This document provides information about the influential Chinese philosopher Confucius. It discusses that Confucius was a teacher and political figure known for his aphorisms and models of social interaction. His teachings focused on creating ethical models for family and public life, as well as setting educational standards. Some of Confucius's key philosophical ideas included the importance of living virtuously, filial piety, ancestor worship, and emphasizing personal and governmental morality. The document also provides a poem attributed to Confucius called "A Wife Mourns For Her Husband" that expresses the speaker's grief and loneliness over her husband's absence.

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    Chinese literature

     Who was Confucius?

     Confucius was an influential Chinese


    philosopher, teacher and political figure known
    for his popular aphorisms and for hid models of
    social interaction.
     He also known as Kong Qui or K’ung Fu-tzu.
     His teachings, preserved in the Analects,
    focused on creating ethical models of family
    and public interaction and setting educational
    standards.
     His philosophical ideas is the importance of a virtuous life, filial piety
    and ancestor worship.
     He also emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of
    social relationships ,justice and sincerity.
     Confucius’s principles have commonality with Chinese tradition and
    beliefs.
     Confucius is widely considered as one of the most important and
    influential individuals in shaping human history.
     His teaching and philosophy greatly impacted people around the world
    and remains influential today.
    A Wife Mourns For Her
    ‘’

    Husband’’ by Confucius
    The dolichos grows and covers the thorn,
    O’er the waste is the dragon –plant creeping;
    The man of my heart is away and I mourn—
    What home have I, lonely and weeping?

    Covering the jujubes the dolichos grows,


    The graves many dragon –plants cover;
    But where is the man on whose breast I’d repose?
    No home have I, having no lover!

    Fair to see was the pillow of horn,


    And fair the bed- chamber’s adorning;
    But the man of my heart is not here, and I mourn
    All alone, and wait for the morning.

    While the long days of summer pass over my head,


    And long winter nights leave their traces,
    I’m alone! Till a hundred of years shall have fled,
    And then I shall meet his embraces.

    Through the long winter nights I am burdened with fears,


    Through the long summer days I am lonely;
    But when time shall have counted its hundreds of years
    I then shall be his--and his only!
    Mood of the speaker:
    The punctuation marks are various.

    The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image;


    and,I are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings if some neighboring lines.


    Moral Lesson

     The pain and happiness of marriage are


    said to be the spices of married life.
    THE ELEMENTS OF THE VERSE :

    Questions and Answers

    Rhyme scheme : abab cdcd abab ecec cfcf

    Stanza lengths (in strings):4,4,4,4,4

    Closest metre: trochaic pentameter

    Closest stanza type: tercets


    THANK YOU

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