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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 ¡