Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: Poems 13-18

[x_los]

 This week, we're reading poems 13-18 in, and thus finishing up, this collection. Because of the nature of the book in question, I'll ask you to refer here for Chinese and English copies of the poems and the images together.

You can view the scroll as a whole more easily and read some background on the Met's website; the Wiki page will also help orient you. In case it's useful, here is a plain-text version of the scroll. 

This is the final week we'll be spending on this poem cycle. Please check the previous two entries if you'd like further background information.

Comments

Re: 17. A Chinese City in View

[x_los]

Figures her life there as a kind of death.

Man ARE these two populated areas really all that far apart? It’s striking that it’s so arduous and dangerous even to move between them.

Rung water?

Oh so all along the cake stand has been his official staff

Impressive city walls

The horses are often interestingly-coloured in this, but don’t have much personality

Re: 17. A Chinese City in View

[superborb]

I don't think the nomadic areas are densely populated? And it's desert-y in between.

Running in the PDF.