Why will I never plant a flowering plum near my house? The feeling received from the plum blossoms is grasped as a “clear cold” like that of ice or frost. There are also many examples of the use of slenderness in composing poetry on Plum Blossoms. As we saw in the beginning, the Peach blossoms are still there but the “goddess” is gone. He doesn't start moaning yet. He checks with the neighbors. He knows the entertainment quarter from earlier days and knows the names—which are never “real” names, but professional names. He wonders what has become of her—He imagines scenes with lovers. We will never know whether this is the lyricist recalling personal experience or, like a musician, playing a “variation on a theme.” Returning to the site where he first saw the beloved establishes the distance that so often Characterizes the lyrics of this generation. A Grove of new bamboo shakes Kingfisher tassels.