How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

192 t He tang Dy na s t y Ninth-century poetry on historical themes often shows affinities in both choice and handling of its ma ...

reCent-style Shi Poetry: HePtasyllabiC regulateD verse 193 other for miles along the newly opened waterways. The couplet initial ...

194 t He tang Dy na s t y golden toad gnaw lock burn incense enter 金蟾齧鎖燒香入 (jīn chán niè suŏ shāo xiāng rù) jade tiger tug silk ...

reCent-style Shi Poetry: HePtasyllabiC regulateD verse 195 wife of Cao Zhi’s elder brother, Cao Pi (187–226), Emperor Wen of the ...

196 t He tang Dy na s t y indigo field sun warm jade emit smoke 藍田日暖玉生煙 (lán tián rì nuăn yù shēng yān) this feeling may await ...

reCent-style Shi Poetry: HePtasyllabiC regulateD verse 197 nowned for its jade. The story of a hero named Chang Hong tells how, ...

198 t He tang Dy na s t y Owen, Stephen. The End of the Chinese “Middle Ages”: Essays in Mid-Tang Literary Culture. Stanford, Ca ...

The two jueju quatrain forms, the pentasyllabic jueju (wujue) and the heptasyllabic jueju (qijue), are the shortest and most foc ...

200 t He tang Dy na s t y Where the first couplet is nonparallel and the second parallel, it constitutes the first half of lüsh ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 201 categories of deixis and modality gives the impression of direct speech ...

202 t He tang Dy na s t y C 1 0. 1 Ziye Song Whence have you come my love That you wear such a melancholy look? Three times I ca ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 203 詠池上梨花詩 (yŏng chí shàng lí huā shī) overturn steps cover fine grass 翻階沒 ...

204 t He tang Dy na s t y less stridently expressive and more subtly reflective. Strong emotion remains, but it is generally pre ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 205 allude to poem no. 131 in the Shijing (The Book of Poetry), in which th ...

206 t He tang Dy na s t y rest of the question reveals the speaker’s anxiety about the continuing strength of this love: his ask ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 207 a devout Buddhist—he studied with the Chan master Daoguang for ten year ...

208 t He tang Dy na s t y that it is what is ultimately true about the object being analyzed, whatever that object may be.”16 Me ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 209 Each particle of dust contains in itself all the Buddha-fields and the ...

210 t He tang Dy na s t y holds the clump of grass, vipaśyanā (or guan) the sickle that cuts it down.”21 In Wang Wei’s poem, “ma ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 211 By far, Li Bai’s favorite topic was Li Bai. More than any other Tang po ...