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dankodesThanks for a nice crop of responses! Remember to check out the comments, and thank you to those who've contributed Baidu and other language insights that aren't accessible to non-Chinese speakers.
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Some notes:
* Two chapters translate in pinyin into Odes of Wei. This is the first one, not the second.
* I'm posting these two chapters together because they're short. We'll drop to one chapter a week if a chapter hits 'about 20' poems rather than 'about 10'.
* 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.
* The first of our reminder emails should have gone out on Saturday. If you did not get an email but you'd like to be on the list, please let me know!
If you would like not to be on the list and there isn't an unsubscribe option in the email itself, please just respond 'unsubscribe' or something and I'll take you off the reminder roster.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* If you haven't read it yet, chapter one, on tetrasyllabic shi poetry, in How to Read Chinese Poetry is hugely useful for the Book of Odes, imo.
Re: 57. 碩人 - Shuo Ren
Her neck was like the tree-grub;
Her teeth were like melon seeds;
Her forehead cicada-like; her eyebrows like [the antenne of] the silkworm moth;
What dimples, as she artfully smiled!
How lovely her eyes, with the black and white so well defined!'
this is such an unusual description of someone being attractive, like--what? ??
'Early retire, ye great officers,
And do not make the marquis fatigued!' bc he's gonna need that energy for wife-fucking, or?
What's up with this reverse end xing?