Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Lessons from the states, Odes Of Bei

[x_los]

This is a longer chapter than the previous two, and people are still catching up with the last two chapters/acclimating to the format. Thus we'll only do one chapter this week.

I'm going to post this week's poem translations in the body of the discussion to make commenting a bit easier. 

Get your 'odes of bae' jokes out early, before the rush.

Comments

Re: 30. 終風 - Zhong Feng

[aeriallon]

Okay so here is my Colossally Stupid Question: what is with the repetition/variation. In the first week we'd have 3 stanzas repeated/varying, and now we have 4. But like...why. What is that about? Is it like in Western popular music, when you repeat the chorus but change a few words to make it more poignant? What about this form would have made its audience swoon? It's really fascinating to me. Sorry for being a ninnyhammer, I'm just a very simple poet.

Re: 30. 終風 - Zhong Feng

[aeriallon]

(You just could never get away! with doing this! in an Anglophone contemporary poem!)