A Farewell I dismount from my horse and drink your wine. I ask where you're going You say you are a failure And want to hibernate at the foot of Deep South Mountain Once you're gone no one will ask about you. There are endless white clouds on the mountain. -Wang Wei Drifting on the Lake Autumn is crisp and the firmament far, especially far from where people live. I look at cranes on the …showed first 75 words of 533 total…

…showed last 75 words of 533 total…he is able to be alone. He remarks that he is "not willing to return" to the place from whence he came with something of a disappointment buried in his words. In contrast, the character in "A Farewell" explains to the poem's speaker that he is traveling to isolation from society. He remarks that he is a failure...but this is a notion he has received from society and it has made him an outcast.