This turns up in Jin Yong's Return of the Condor Heroes, where Cheng Ying, after meeting Yang Guo for the first time, sits down at her desk and writes the last line over and over again. Because the first rule of ROCH is that every attractive young woman must become smitten with Yang Guo and either (1) die for him (2) never marry because there's no one else like him or (3) lop his arm off in a futile bid to deny her feelings for him. Jin Yong plays the quote pretty straight in that scene.
There's also a possible reading of the poem where 君 is read as 'king/lord' instead of 'husband', so that it becomes sort of a King Arthur-y 'in these dark times a righteous king has arrived, how could I not be joyful'. Unfortunately, for the life of me, I cannot remember whether that's a legit alternative reading I saw somewhere, or whether it's something my brain made up.
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Re: 90. 風雨 - Feng Yu
Date: 2021-01-25 08:18 am (UTC)There's also a possible reading of the poem where 君 is read as 'king/lord' instead of 'husband', so that it becomes sort of a King Arthur-y 'in these dark times a righteous king has arrived, how could I not be joyful'. Unfortunately, for the life of me, I cannot remember whether that's a legit alternative reading I saw somewhere, or whether it's something my brain made up.