This reminded me of Wilfred Owen and other war poets. I suppose I’m picking up on the rank and gags line and the idea that the clothes in the west are different and more personal than those they have to wear in the east, Sent away to war and recalling longingly the seasonal rituals of home - the domesticity of a world at peace? But also the recognition that even places unaffected directly by the war will suffer as they are neglected? And that ordinary life (marriage etc) passes them by while they are away. The girls they admired turn to other lovers and marry them. They return as strangers to their homes.
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Re: 156. 东山 - Dong Shan
Date: 2021-03-16 11:35 pm (UTC)Sent away to war and recalling longingly the seasonal rituals of home - the domesticity of a world at peace? But also the recognition that even places unaffected directly by the war will suffer as they are neglected? And that ordinary life (marriage etc) passes them by while they are away. The girls they admired turn to other lovers and marry them. They return as strangers to their homes.