The River-Merchant’s Wife: A LetterEzra Pound, 1885 - 1972

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chokan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.

At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.

At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?

At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.

You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Cho-fu-Sa.

Read this line from "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter," which describes the speaker and her husband when they were children.

Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.

How does this line and the previous lines' descriptions of the speaker and her husband playing near each other develop the idea that time and maturity can allow love to develop between two people?

a) They suggest that people should be suspicious of everyone they meet, even as children, for everyone has a negative side.

b) They indicate that it would be better not to grow up, but to remain a child at heart always.

c) They indicate that, in that time and place, boys and girls played together as equals.

d) They suggest that, as children, the speaker and her future husband had no strong feelings for each other.

^^Just took the test the answer is D

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A.
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B.
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C.
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A.
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B.
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C.
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D.
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