Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord

O fan of white silk,
clear as frost on the grass-blade,

You also are laid aside.

Analysis, meaning and summary of Ezra Pound's poem Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord

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  1. Sheryl Skoglund says:

    O fan of white silk,
    clear as frost on the grass-blade,

    You also are laid aside.
    A dashing, swaggering, or jaunty young man: a gay blade from the nearby city.
    9. a swordsman.
    10. Phonetics .
    a. the foremost and most readily flexible portion of the tongue, including the tip and implying the upper and lower surfaces and edges.
    b. the upper surface of the tongue directly behind the tip, lying beneath the alveolar ridge when the tongue is in a resting position.
    Frost is something cold being laid aside.

  2. ruby says:

    In the ancient China, Han dynasty, about two thousands years ago,there is a imperial concubine who wrote a poem named fan. She depicted a beautiful silk fan was laid aside for the coming autumn, to express her grievance– I am still young, still pretty, but why don’t you love me anymore?

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