How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

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The Shijing (The Book of Poetry) is the fountainhead of Chinese poetry. The three hundred–odd poems that make up this anthology ...

14 Pr e - q i n t i m e s Some of the prosody of these songs may have been the creation of these young men and women themselves, ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 15 as serious as with the Greek poetic fragments of the same peri ...

16 Pr e - q i n t i m e s seems to have driven all night—as well as the erotic associations of the groves (where romantic liaiso ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 17 trameter) and rhyme scheme (xaxa / xbxb / xcxc) are also perfe ...

18 Pr e - q i n t i m e s of You, Zhong Zi [Mao no. 76]), the second poem in the state of Zheng section and among the best known ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 19 nunciation) of the rhymes in lines 1–5 and 7. It is as if the ...

20 Pr e - q i n t i m e s This kind of progression in the Book of Poetry has come to be called incremental repetition. In “I Beg ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 21 whose husband has been away serving the state but who has now ...

22 Pr e - q i n t i m e s for their partners, as does the young man who is the persona in “Jing nü” (The Re- tiring Girl [Mao no ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 23 adjective “beautiful” (mei) in the final five lines (it is use ...

24 Pr e - q i n t i m e s 14 He did not stop by to see me, 不我過 (bù wŏ guò) His wailing will become my song. 其嘯也歌 (qí xiào yě g ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 25 C 1. 8 Little Stars 小星 (xiăo xīng) Faint are those little sta ...

26 Pr e - q i n t i m e s Although once again a Greek fragment offers us no context, the juxtaposition of some central female fi ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 27 return of a victorious army and the preparation for sacrifices ...

28 Pr e - q i n t i m e s This poem is more disjointed and obscure than any we have examined. Images that may have been familiar ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 29 in a poem about a common young girl, it is used—parallel to th ...

30 Pr e - q i n t i m e s C 1. 1 2 Egrets in Flight 振鷺 (zhèn lù) A flock of egrets in flight 振鷺于飛 (zhèn lù yú fêi) 2 Over t ...

t e t ra s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : The B o ok of P oeT ry 31 The ancient honorable Dan Fu, 古公亶父 (gŭ gōng dăn fŭ) 8 On the ...