Analysis of the Theme of Poems Longing for One's Wife in the Nineteen Pieces of Traditional Chinese Poems

Although the expression of yearning between lovers is the theme for poems longing for one's wife,which is one of the genre of the traditional Chinese poems,the implication of the theme is in fact far beyond the expression of yearning between lovers.We can find out the heroine's concern with ego and their consideration of the values of life from the sentimental feelings of time and tide waiting for no man and the mourning of loss of their beauty in which are conveyed those poems longing for one's wife in the Nineteen Pieces of Traditional Chinese Poems.