Du Fu was born during An Lushan rebellion, so there were many battles and wars all over the country. His poems tend to show senses of sadness, helpless, and sighing. In Spring Protest, he shows how he is worried about the country, felt sad about this time period, missed his home, and frustrated about the situation that he was in. Through the poem, he also illustrated how himself as a poet related to the country as a whole. In the poem, “Beacon fires  three months in succession, a letter from home worth ten thousand in gold.” These two lines are very widespread of describing the riot during that period and how it affected people’s family by spliting them away from each other.

Also, some of the poems from Du Fu are ended with questions, such as Moonlight Night and My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind. What are the purposes of asking these questions and how the questions affect the meaning?

In Li Bo In the Quiet Night, I think the translation from Vikram Seth did not really present what really means in the original poem. How can we improve the translation?