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Nineteen Old Poems: Week 1 of 2
* The 'due date' for this batch is the week of August 18th: I just thought I'd make the post now so that people can trickle in whenever. There were two votes in favour of East Asia Student's translations, so that's what I've gone with. If you prefer or would like to bring another translation into the discussion, please feel free.
* Chapter Five of How to Read Chinese Poetry is specifically about the Nineteen Old Poems.
* 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.
* Remember you can also look at How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context, though it doesn't specifically treat this collection.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* Chapter Five of How to Read Chinese Poetry is specifically about the Nineteen Old Poems.
* 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.
* Remember you can also look at How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context, though it doesn't specifically treat this collection.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* I found the best option for the weekly reminder emails, via Gmail. The external service options are more involved than our purposes require. Does anyone know anything about how to arrange an Apps Script? Basically all it has to do is tell ten people, on Saturdays, to come and get their juice/poems.
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.
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.
Re: 7. 明月皎夜光 - The Clear Moon Shines Brightly by Night
'How to Read' thinks the constellations mentioned here are being called up to demonstrate they have the shape but not the substance of things: the ox can't pull, etc. I get it re the ox, but for the previous two, I would have appreciated similar explication of their immaterial uselessness, if that's indeed what's up?
The cooling, desolate landscape paralleled to the abandoned friend
'How to Read' thinks the second to last line is about how human bodies don't ENDURE like these substances.
What's up with the final line?
Re: 7. 明月皎夜光 - The Clear Moon Shines Brightly by Night
There’s a suggestion that the poet and the person that left them behind like a footprint may have the name of a couple but the reality is that they don’t function as one,
Re: 7. 明月皎夜光 - The Clear Moon Shines Brightly by Night