The Ophelia point is a great one! (she says, as if she knows anything about Hamlet other than the obvious) That rhetorical flourish is in the text itself, so it's a perfectly legit reading.
So the way I'm (somewhat facetiously) reading has a name, lol. It's also applied to some Song (and maybe Tang) poems, e.g. why would a renowned general-poet be writing about a beautiful woman standing in a darkened corner? It must be an allusion to his having fallen out of imperial favour (although we know more about the authors of Song poetry so there is at least a bit of historical support for those readings).
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Re: 90. 風雨 - Feng Yu
Date: 2021-01-25 08:01 pm (UTC)So the way I'm (somewhat facetiously) reading has a name, lol. It's also applied to some Song (and maybe Tang) poems, e.g. why would a renowned general-poet be writing about a beautiful woman standing in a darkened corner? It must be an allusion to his having fallen out of imperial favour (although we know more about the authors of Song poetry so there is at least a bit of historical support for those readings).