How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

212 t He tang Dy na s t y C 1 0. 1 0 Lament of the Jade Stairs On jade stairs, the rising white dew Through the long night pierc ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 213 an invention of the High Tang poets, most notably Wang Changling (698–c ...

214 t He tang Dy na s t y C 1 0. 1 2 Autumn Songs of the Hall of Abiding Faith On the paulownia by the golden well, autumn leave ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 215 still toward gold city bright lord look 還向金城明主看 (huán xiàng jīn chéng ...

216 t He tang Dy na s t y C 1 0. 1 3 Sending Off Meng Haoran to Guangling at Yellow Crane Tower An old friend leaves the west at ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 217 hear say kill person Han river on 聞道殺人漢水上 (wén dào shā rén hàn shuĭ s ...

218 t He tang Dy na s t y east wind not give Zhou man advantage 東風不與周郎便 (dōng fēng bù yŭ zhōu láng biàn) bronze small bird spr ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 219 the emperor’s palm. “Green mansions” is a euphemism for the dwellings o ...

220 t He tang Dy na s t y As Zong-qi Cai writes in chapter 5, the pentasyllabic line is made up of a disyllable and a trisyllabl ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 221 wai zhi yi), “flavor beyond flavor” (weiwai zhi wei), and “lines that e ...

222 t He tang Dy na s t y not present perfect maximum contrast but only generally does so. The only per- fectly balanced unit is ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 223 we see a maximum of four topic + comment structures, but more usually t ...

224 t He tang Dy na s t y Charles Egan, “A Critical Study of the Origins of Chüeh-chü Poetry,” Asia Major, 3rd ser., 6, pt. 1 ( ...

r e C e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : quat ra i n s 225 Luo Genze, “Qiyanshi zhi qiyuan ji qi chengshu” (The Origin and Matura ...

Mention Tang dynasty guti shi (ancient-style poetry), and you will quickly hear about what it is not. That is, it is not jinti s ...

anC i e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : C on t i nuat ion anD C Hang e s 227 rules, showcasing a voice that ranged widely from su ...

228 t He tang Dy na s t y Awareness of the Obscure is not the same as muddled knowledge—3 玄感非蒙識 (xuán găn fēi méng shí) 8 Who ...

anC i e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : C on t i nuat ion anD C Hang e s 229 ing person who can apply his vision in this way. Thi ...

230 t He tang Dy na s t y as the key positions of five-character verses, is powerful; and it is rendered all the more so by the ...

anC i e n t-s t y l e Sh i P oe t ry : C on t i nuat ion anD C Hang e s 231 Line 3 plays on these thwarted visual expectations. ...