Locked Dreams

Jia Baoyu caught between two poems

Locked Dreams

As you’ve probably guessed by now, the two rooms and two poems that Jia Baoyu visited are opposites of each other. And this tells us a lot about Jia Baoyu’s personality.

The first poem is pretty easy to understand and is relatively straightforward, as I explained in this commentary post.

The second, however, is a lot more difficult. It’s also the sort of poem we’re going to see a lot of in chapter 5. So let’s jump right in.