怎一个愁字了得

1. • (last line of the poem 声声慢 shēngshēngmàn by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照 lǐqīngzhào)
2. • how can it be expressed in one word, "sorrow"?
3. • how can words express such sadness?

Character by character

• 怎(zěn)how
• 一(yī)one
• 个(gè)(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
• 愁(chóu)worry about
• 字(zì)letter
• 了(liǎo)finish
• 得(dé)get