The conflict that Meng Jiao address in "Despair" is, Poets vs. Bureaucrats.
Answer: Option D.
Step-by-step explanation:
‘Despair’ is a poem written by a Chinese poet Meng Jiao. In this poem the poet addresses the conflict between poets and the bureaucrats.
The narrator of the poem is a poetry lover who depicts what it is like to love poetry. He states that the love for poetry is like ‘clinging to a mountain’ which is full on sorrow and hardship.
The poet says that ‘The bourgeoisie are jealous of those who love poetry’, by this he means that the bureaucrats envies the poets and their fondness for poetry. Throughout the poem there an dispute which is shown between the poets and the bureaucrats.