How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

232 t He tang Dy na s t y succeeded. Others, however, found his writing ostentatious, undisciplined, and altogether too full of ...

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 233 The great river boundless flows on, never to return. ...

234 t He tang Dy na s t y Phoenix, phoenix, how has virtue failed! The future you cannot wait for; the past you cannot pursue. W ...

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 235 As it happens, this promise is fulfilled in the very ...

236 t He tang Dy na s t y In line 16, when a new rhyme begins, the poet reappears, and we begin what might be thought of as a po ...

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 237 the events that unfurl before us, or of grasping the ...

238 t He tang Dy na s t y C 1 1. 4 Planting Flowers on the Eastern Slope, No. 1 東坡種花 (dōng pō zhòng huā) I took my money and ...

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 239 In front, a long-flowing river, 前有長流水 (qián yŏu ch ...

240 t He tang Dy na s t y They clear the earth and mound it at the roots, 剗土壅其本 (chăn tŭ yōng qí bĕn) 8 And guide the spring w ...

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 241 notes For further reading on Chen Zi’ang’s life and ...

242 t He tang Dy na s t y The two versions are somewhat different, with the Zhuangzi account offering more detail. This transla ...

❀ ❀ ❀ P a r t 5 The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty ...

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Beginning in the Tang dynasty (618–907), new music from Central Asia began entering China and soon became all the rage at the co ...

246 t He F i v e Dy na s t i e s anD t He s ong Dy na s t y to the number of notes in a line, for example. Although there are ex ...

c i P oe t ry : s Hor t s ong ly riC s 247 6 This separation grief. It’s altogether a different kind of flavor in the heart. [QT ...

248 t He F i v e Dy na s t i e s anD t He s ong Dy na s t y (│)(─)│▲ (│)(─)│▲ │──△ (│)│(│)─(─)││──△ The strict tonal alternation ...

c i P oe t ry : s Hor t s ong ly riC s 249 early song lyrics, mostly anonymous and characterized by wide thematic variation. The ...

250 t He F i v e Dy na s t i e s anD t He s ong Dy na s t y The colloquial flavor of the poem makes itself felt in the sheer num ...

c i P oe t ry : s Hor t s ong ly riC s 251 but later ci pattern books also commonly list a number of variations on the same tune ...