Cold Mountain
Where’s the trail to Cold Mountain?
Cold Mountain? There’s no clear way.
Ice, in summer, is still frozen.
Bright sun shines through thick fog.
You won’t get there following me.
Your heart and mine are not the same.
If your heart was like mine,
You’d have made it, and be there!
SPEAKER:He use second person the most in the poem like for example you
IMAGERY: “The Bright sun shines through thick fog” in this stanza he uses on of the five sense which is sight. I showed sight because can visual a bright sun.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Simile “if your heart was like mine” because he's comparing his heart like from someone else
TONE: The tone is cold because the poem is very like just cold hearted
THEME: The theme is unfeeling because in the poem he compares his heart as cold,freezing and still cold in the summer.
About Han-shan:
Han-shan was born in China from 1546-1623. He was a Buddhist thinker and reformers of late Ming period. He wrote four important works on Taoism which he was interested all his life.As old people point of view of him wasn’t really bad or good, they said that he was poor man and crazy.He looked like a tramp. His body and face were old and beat. Yet in every word he breathed was a meaning in line with the subtle principles of things, if only you thought of it deeply. Everything he said had a feeling of Tao in it, profound and arcane secrets.
I think the poem is about the speaker telling someone he doesn't want to be friends because they are too different and want different things from a relationship. The 'cold mountain' represents his heart. He is saying that if they were meant to be, it would happen, but it didn't.
ReplyDeleteI believe the theme in the poem is having to not depend on somebody to take you were you need to be. But to depend on yourself to get to where you need to go and trust in self to get where no to go.
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ReplyDeleteIn my interpretation of this poem I understood that the speaker is in a way showing off that he was able to succeed and the other person couldn't. The Cold Mountain is his dream he's trying to reach. While the description of the Mountain are the obstacles that were put while trying to succeed a dream. When he mentions about the hearts not being the same it's like saying that they are not the same because he succeeded and the other person didn't.
ReplyDelete.m March 23, 2016 at 9:12 I understood that the speaker is in a way showing off that he picked up what the other person couldnt.
ReplyDeleteto me it made sense that the person should truat in themeselves and not in anyother person becaue in the end its only you who you can count on.
while the mountain is a destenation ther person would like to reach. h person encounters many obstackes and only depend on oneself.