Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

Meaning of the poem "The Book of Songs"

Explanation:

             The Book of Songs is a Classical Chinese poem. The repetition helps us to know the clear situation of the poet and also we can able to understand the emotions of the poet. These lines from the poem tell about a man in the middle of the river on his boat.

              His boat was made up of Cypress wood and it was unsteady in the middle of the river. He was praising his boat as a comrade, a soldier and more like a friend and he says that his boat was his love until death. But he had fluctuating intentions on his boat because it is now unstable in the middle of the river.