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

[x_los]

They do look like an eye rhyme to me but perhaps that's just bc I'm not very familiar with Chinese characters, so stuff that looks quite dissimilar to proper speakers, I don't appreciate the significant distinctions between.

How does one 'neither come nor go away'? Like. Is he standing there like John Travolta in the meme?

[embarrassing fannish bit]

"He looks at me and smiles,
With scornful words and dissolute, - the smile of pride.
To the center of my heart I am grieved."

"I think of him, and am destroyed with longing"

sorry your boyfriend is full of demons now, lwj. wop wop woooooop.