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An End or A Beginning Analysis
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An End or a Beginning - Bei Dao For Yu Luoke Bei Dao's Poem 'An End or a Beginning' depicts the endless protestors 'murdered' by the cruelty of the Cultural Revolution and the continuity of life in search of hope after many lives taken away. The loss of hope looked for "In every dream" after every day, reinforces the everlastingly hunt of freedom and end of the Cultural Revolution even though it feels just out of grasp and the sacrifice to get there is unavoidable. The setting of the poem in nature where the "trees", "clouds" and "stars" are, connotes the freedom of the outdoors with no restrictions contrasting with the people living under the unnatural aggression of the Cultural Revolution. The destruction of the people's freedom is shown in stanza one where someone protests like "the sun rises" and "A heavy shadow, like a road Shall run across the land" will destroy...
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