Question

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

Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.

How does this line and the previous lines description of the speaker's bashfulness when she was first married develop the idea that time and maturity can allow love to develop between two people?

A)They show that the speaker's husband must also change if he expects their love to grow and last
B)They suggest that the speaker has fallen in love with her husband now that they are married.
C)They show the speakers feelings and behavior at the start of her marrlage, when she was young and less mature
D)They Indicate that it is impossible to predict how people will change or grow over time.

Answer 1

C. They show the speaker's feelings and behavior at the start of her marriage, when she was young and less mature.

Step-by-step explanation:

The poem "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" was translated by Ezra Pound from a Chinese poet Li Bai. The speaker was married to her husband at the young age of 14. She was a shy girl who hardly dared to look at anyone, let alone her husband. And then he left her to go fishing. The above mentioned lines of the poem talks of when she was a shy girl, who never looked back even when she was called a thousand times. But now that she has grown more matured than when she was married, she longs for her husband and wants him to return home, to her.

Answer 2

The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter, published or translated from a Chinese poem by Ezra Pound.

The line : "Called to , a thousand times, I never looked back.

This line and the previous ones indicate that : C. They show the speakers feelings and behavior at the start of her marriage, when she was young and less mature.

She was careless and did not know what life had in store for her. Later her husband would be away for a long time to fish at sea, and she would be waiting for him to return to her, while her love for him grew more and more, which was painful to her.