How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

372 t He y uan, m i ng, anD q i ng Dy na s t i e s by demonstrating his appreciation of his wife’s expression of love in skillfu ...

Sh i P oe t ry oF t He m i ng anD q i ng Dy na s t i e s 373 10 Awakened I recite “The Cock Crows,” alas, but you don’t hear at ...

374 t He y uan, m i ng, anD q i ng Dy na s t i e s ten thousand sounds quiet time people thought quiet 萬籟寂時人意靜 (wàn lài jì shí ...

Sh i P oe t ry oF t He m i ng anD q i ng Dy na s t i e s 375 teenth or eighteenth century), is obviously inspired by and modeled ...

376 t He y uan, m i ng, anD q i ng Dy na s t i e s The effect of the emphasis on the femininity of illness in the opening couple ...

Sh i P oe t ry oF t He m i ng anD q i ng Dy na s t i e s 377 Yuan Mei quanji (The Complete Works of Yuan Mei), ed. Wang Yingzhi ...

378 t He y uan, m i ng, anD q i ng Dy na s t i e s “The Cock Crows” (Mao no. 96), in James Legge, trans., The Chinese Classics, ...

Line configuration and poetic vision are probably the two most important subjects of inquiry in traditional Chinese poetry criti ...

380 a s y n tHe sis tetrasyllabic, pentasyllabic, heptasyllabic, and so on), and others feature lines of irregular length. These ...

r Hy tHm, s y n taX , anD v ision oF C H i ne s e P oe t ry 381 of an agent (subject) and the agent’s state or action (predicate ...

382 a s y n tHe sis Tetrasyllabic Shi Poetry We begin with the semantic rhythm and syntactic constructions of early tetra- sylla ...

r Hy tHm, s y n taX , anD v ision oF C H i ne s e P oe t ry 383 lovely◦ yao miao xi well decorated 美要眇兮宜修 quickly◦ I ride xi cas ...

384 a s y n tHe sis Springs and autumns sped by in endless alternation. I thought how the trees and flowers were fading and fall ...

r Hy tHm, s y n taX , anD v ision oF C H i ne s e P oe t ry 385 The syntactic role of the disyllabic segment is determined by th ...

386 a s y n tHe sis pond banks grow◦ spring grass 池塘生春草 (chí táng shēng chūn căo) garden willows change◦ singing birds 園柳變鳴禽 (yu ...

r Hy tHm, s y n taX , anD v ision oF C H i ne s e P oe t ry 387 Tang regulated verse presents us with topic + comment constructi ...

388 a s y n tHe sis of a pentasyllabic line. So he classifies heptasyllabic lines into seven major types, according to the parts ...

r Hy tHm, s y n taX , anD v ision oF C H i ne s e P oe t ry 389 Now let us see how the auxiliary 2 brings about this magical tra ...

390 a s y n tHe sis trees, crows, and sunset) and bygone imperial extravagance (nighttime excursion and pleasure boats on the wi ...

r Hy tHm, s y n taX , anD v ision oF C H i ne s e P oe t ry 391 C 1 8. 2 Crossing the Sea of Loneliness All the hardships I’ve e ...