How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology

92 t He Han Dy na s t y 12 For the sake of blue heaven above, 上用倉浪天故 (shàng yòng cāng làng tiān gù) And for our young childr ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 93 Fought South of the Walls,” and this probably indicates an earlier stage of Chinese ...

94 t He Han Dy na s t y The poem begins with a forthright exclamation of the persona’s love. Even in fifth-century China, few li ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 95 her brother. Since line 13 alludes to poem no. 23 in the Book of Poetry, in which a ...

96 t He Han Dy na s t y of life, typical in works that contain the carpe diem poetic theme. The persona exhorts his audience to ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 97 C 4. 8 Mulberry Along the Lane 陌上桑 (mò shàng sāng) The sun rises from the southeast ...

98 t He Han Dy na s t y On a white steed followed by a black colt. 白馬從驪駒 (băi mă cóng lí jū) 40 Blue silk strands are tied t ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 99 the folk tradition. Overall, Frankel maintains that this poem is an oral folk song e ...

100 t He Han Dy na s t y presenting such a properly dressed woman in order to appeal to an aristocratic audience. Another possib ...

Sh i P oe t ry : musiC bur e au P oe m s 101 Ban Gu, Han shu 22.1043. Wei Zheng (580–643), ed., Sui shu (History of the Sui Dyn ...

102 t He Han Dy na s t y Zhang Qi, “Han yuefu ‘Moshang sang’ xintan” (A New Study of the Han Music Bureau Poem “Mulberry Along ...

The “Nineteen Old Poems” are the earliest known coherent group of pentasyllabic poems, first collected in the Wen xuan (Antholog ...

104 t He Han Dy na s t y The first two characters make up a disyllabic segment (usually a disyllabic compound), and the remaini ...

P e n ta s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : t He “ni ne t e e n ol D P oe m s ” 105 either the Three Hundred Poems [Book of Poetry] ...

106 t He Han Dy na s t y separation. But when she notices how she has wasted away in pining, she awakens to a different kind of ...

P e n ta s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : t He “ni ne t e e n ol D P oe m s ” 107 “Luo” and “Wan” in line 8 denote, respectively, ...

108 t He Han Dy na s t y about the evanescence of human existence: “Man’s life is as transient as a sojourn, / His frame is not ...

P e n ta s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : t He “ni ne t e e n ol D P oe m s ” 109 they all stink, rot, disintegrate, and disappear ...

110 t He Han Dy na s t y Oh, how green is the grass on the riverbank, 青青河邊草 (qīng qīng hé pàn căo) How endless is my longing f ...

P e n ta s y l l a biC Sh i P oe t ry : t He “ni ne t e e n ol D P oe m s ” 111 wife falls asleep, whom she sees in her dream, a ...