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Time
Tic toc… tic toc… On a fundamental level, "A Poem of Changgan" is a poem about time. After all, it's a poem that covers a big chunk of the speaker's life, from her days as a child when she first meets her sweetheart, to her marriage and her months of waiting for him to come back. So the passage of time is an important theme in the poem, and it's signaled in a number of ways.
Time is the speaker's enemy in "A Poem of Changgan."
Please—time is a source of hope for the speaker in "A Poem of Changgan."
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