Du Fu  was a poet in the Tang Dynasty who rivaled Li 
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Bai for the title of China¡s greatest poet. He showed a life-
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time concernover the fate of the nation and the people, and
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wrote many poems denouncing social problems. For want 
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of space we can only quote a few lines of his poetry as an
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illustration:
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              Behind the mansion¡s  crimson gates, wine is 
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                    left to sour, meat to rot.
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                Outside lie the bodies of those who have
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                    frozen or died of starvation.  
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                              ¡¡ ¡ A Song of One Hundred Lines on the Journey from     
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                                       the Capital to Fengxian County ¡
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                   For three months the beacon fires soar and burn the skies,
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                    A family letter is worth ten thousand gold in price.
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                              ¡¡ ¡ A Spring View ¡