New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

writing during and immediately after World War I. In Postcards from the Trenches, Booth contends that the literature of World Wa ...

China. However, the GMD-led military neither made gains in taking territory nor made good on its pledge to retake China, such th ...

circularity to, among other things, describe closed states of mind and convey feelings of frustration or futility that came as t ...

Chapter Five To the Heart of Exile: The Poetic Odyssey of Luo Fu John Balcom Luo Fu (Lo Fu)is the penname of Mo Luofu , bor ...

The poems in Luo Fu’s first book, River of the Soul靈 (1957), are unexceptional and typical of the sort of poetry written then. ...

immaterial shadow. Material restrictions gone, the chimney is a shadow of itself but remains equally unfree. The shadow is ultim ...

anticommunist propaganda or a Romanticism modelled on the works of Xu Zhimo and others from the 1930s. Luo Fu, like many émigré ...

man’s fate in the modern world are expressed through a complex array of personal symbols to create a stunning and hermetic poetr ...

Although it had its origins in the experience of war, the poem does not pretend to describe reality, representing instead an inn ...

In his early poems, Luo Fu sought to transcend the painful historical reality he encountered in Taiwan. On Quemoy, the regular s ...

limitations of a specific time and place by returning to the immediacy of experience. As Luo Fu says in “The Poet’s Mirror,” the ...

It spreads its wings and the 如÷地øùúû¹ü| universe follows, drifting upward ü|ýþ呵üÔ|4 Dawn is a song, short and bright Igniting ...

Turning his palms up... Look! Scales but no fins What kind of fish are they? Later, squatting under the eaves He eats a fruit ca ...

Chinese culture functioned as the mirror Luo Fu needed to define the sense of self and the Modernist ethos. Without the cultural ...

This poem is reminiscent of the classical theme of visiting a temple such as in Chang Jian’s |} (fl. 749)“A Buddhist Retreat Beh ...

8 âw 1 ã老û的På Reminiscing about the old days æ塵¢ When we fought with our backs to the sea çç ....... O Twilight falls Horses g ...

Into a wine run I shake it up, then watch as the mist rises Language dances drunkenly, rhymes clash chaotically The urn breaks, ...

Stoneö酒的må(1983), for example, contains a forty-two-page elegy to the poet’s mother that is in fact a lament for China; Nirvana ...

Another poem from the same collection that crystallizes the tragedy of modern China and the tragic sense of history, while writt ...

of the poet’s artistic journey, life experience, and philosophy. On the poem, Luo Fu says, “It sums up my experience of exile, m ...