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Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Greater Odes of the Kingdom, Decade of Dang
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Until someone knows what to do there, I'll send out manual messages weekly. If you'd like to receive these and are not getting them, please let me know.
* If you haven't read it yet, chapter one, on tetrasyllabic shi poetry, in How to Read Chinese Poetry is hugely useful for the Book of Odes, imo.
* Remember you can also look at How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* Every week I search the poems' English results to see if I can find any scholarship or neat bits and pop the results in Resources. Here is this week's collection.
**NEXT BATCH JUNE 7.**
Re: 264. 瞻卬 - Zhan Yang
"But she is [no better than] an owl." ??
"Those from whom come no lessons, no instruction,
Are women and eunuchs." but a second ago she was wise?
'But they do not say [that their words were] very wrong; -
[They say], ' What evil was there in them?
As if in the three times cent per cent of traffic,
A superior man should have any knowledge of it;' what?
'Heaven is letting down its net,
And many [are the calamities in it].' so we're back with the net, but I'm not clear on what this net is doing
Re: 264. 瞻卬 - Zhan Yang
I think the net of crime bit is saying that like, justice isn't being served / criminals aren't being caught.
Owls are bad, remember? Baike also glosses as legend says they would eat their mothers when they grew up. Anyway, evil birds.
I-- don't think that 'wise' is meant to be a good adjective for a woman. I wonder if this part is calling out the Bao Si situation, where You wang was trying to depose his empress for her?
The three times bit is glossed as referring to get three times the profit. Calling them profiteers, basically? Baike's discussion on this stanza is that it's saying that the way to prevent women's disasters is for them to return to women's work and not the gov't.
Baike's explanation for the heaven's net stanza is that the narrator is worried about the country in the face of natural and man made disasters
Re: 264. 瞻卬 - Zhan Yang
'cunning' or 'crafty' would be better than wise, then, because both have negative, femme associations 'wise' does not
Re: 264. 瞻卬 - Zhan Yang