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: 33. 雄雉 - Xiong Zhi

[superborb]

Apparently this is actually criticism of the ruler's (people in power's?) lack of virtue, who is keeping the husband away, and she is expressing her sadness about missing her husband who has been in service in a distant place