The specific poetry, which I read, takes place on the river with a female on a Cypress boat drifting down the river. Her life is very dark, with her heart being restless as though in torment and with her heart being troubled. Feeling lonely with herself on the boat she drinks wine to ease her mind, and roams down the stream on the Cypress boat. Her sadness makes her think more of the things she doesn’t have; “Yes, I do have brothers, but brothers will not be my stay. I went and told them of my grief and met only with their rage.” She wants her brothers back desperately by telling them how she feels every day when waking up, but her cold hearted brothers don’t take in her pain and leave her with sorrow. Most brothers would be there to help their sister in situations like this, but in this case they don't.
My guess is that she is forced into marriage; therefore they put her on the boat to drift to her next future husband. I also believe that because of her age, she was forced into getting married more quickly than what our society today views as normal. I believe that the woman was placed into the perfect marriage. Because of this, I believe that her brothers didn't help her because they didn't want to interfere with the traditional customs. Forced marriage and arranged marriage are different, because in forced they have to get married if she likes it or not, but in arranged marriage her parents choose who they want her to marry. In a way, the woman still suffers with both type of marriages, however in the arranged marriage, the parents believe that they have the best say and the best opinion of who she should marry. In the forced, her personality, her beliefs, and her attitude don’t influence her parents or anyone else. Because of this, the woman on the boat starts wishing to fly away from the forced life, but flying is not an option in reality but only in imagination.
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