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Original poem reprinted online here: "Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River" by Tu Fu Originally read: May 9, 2013 More information about the Poet: Tu Fu Continuing on with the idea of metaphor, the speaker in this poem automatically compares himself to the blossoms along the river.  Both are alone.  Now, the reasons should unfold throughout the poem, but I want to explain the picture past me drew in the margins.  The image of blossoms along the river are easy to visualize, but past me (and current me), doesn't quite see the connection.  Or rather, when it comes to loneliness and nature, there are some other representative images, but it feels like the blossoms near the river either have an historically symbolic reason or a personal symbolic reason.  Maybe a little bit of both. Yet, the focus of the speaker's loneliness is further impacted with the drinking.  "But my friend in wine / Gone ten days drinking" and then the image of the bed in which could...