Sinking by Yu Ta Fu

Question

Chinese Literature: Sinking by Yu Ta- Fu translated by Joseph S. M. Lau and C. T. Hsia

Answer down below questions and b.

While the narrator in "Sinking" yearns to return to the "Peach Blossom Spring," he also expresses the desire of being his "Eve" in the "Garden of Eden."

a. If these "two" pastoral realms can be merged into "one," what would the "combined" pastoral garden look like? 

b. If "Peach Blossom Spring" represents the Chinese paradise, and the "Garden of Eden" the western one, what kinds of modern "political" visions does the narrator project for China as a nation, or national community? 

Answer 1

Actually the narrator wanted to be as powerful as Eve, Mother of all. He was studying in Japan and his classmates were looking down upon him as his country was not strong. He wanted to save his mother country and wished to have the power as Mother of all.