New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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(“mound”). A pictograph, the character qiuevokes graves to which all the soldiers belong in the end. What distinguishes this poe ...

Born in the Literary Revolution of 1917, Modern Poetry was the culmination of discontent with the status quo of Classical Poetry ...

the writing of Classical Poetry have mushroomed in mainland China. Some Modern poets and critics are worried that the trend may ...

Part I Contemporary Poetry of Taiwan ...

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Chapter Three Zheng Chouyu and the Search for Voice in Contemporary Chinese Lyric Poetry Christopher Lupke Despite the paucity o ...

virtually synonymous with “Western”) and Chinese, a feat, he contends in the introduction to a collection of Zheng’s, that was u ...

audible merit rests in the poet’s effort to forge a new style of verse for modern Chinese poetry, a style that eschews the stric ...

The central stanza in the poem is framed by a couplet before and one after it. The interaction of these two framing couplets wit ...

musical. As noted above, Zheng has been instrumental in injecting a sense of the musical into modern Chinese literature. “‘[L]yr ...

said—he was the right person in the right place at the right time. Part of this is certainly some sort of innate poetic gift tha ...

It is in the realm of these problems posed by the lyric where the difficulty of their structure as a literary unit and the chall ...

for communicating the historical and political situation of modern China and Taiwan. The 1950s fiction in Taiwan was largely ide ...

Missed opportunities, ships passing in the night, often comprise the imagery of Zheng Chouyu’s lyrical verse. In this case, the ...

for one can also find playful and even joyous poems that are set in the cold and dank confines of a water well in the winter. We ...

a well, the speaker becomes the well denizen and the reference shifts to a different image in the Daoist palette, that of someon ...

(Zheng [1951] 2003: 22–23) We should be impressed, as Shen Qi æ奇was (Shen 1995: 256–257), when we take into account that this po ...

futility of human existence in general; and also the sense of conviviality, as in sharing stories over a campfire. Echoing the a ...