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dankodesBack after the Christmas/New Year break! I'd really like to get through the Book of Odes in the next months, so we can enter into our next Tang or Song offering. I'll try to be more regulated in the poem posts accordingly.
Some notes:
* 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.
* I believe the reminder emails have stopped, so I'll seek a new service to run that.
When the second batch of these is up and running, 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.
**NEXT BATCH FEB 1.**
Some notes:
* 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.
* I believe the reminder emails have stopped, so I'll seek a new service to run that.
When the second batch of these is up and running, 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.
**NEXT BATCH FEB 1.**
Re: 78. 大叔于田 - Da Shu Yu Tian
A stronger and smoother narrative flow than most of the other chanting, ritual or work-song lyric poems we've been working with.
He shoots but seldom; because he's keeping a careful eye on his targets and choosing his shots accordingly?
What are the significance of the marsh and fire?
Re: 78. 大叔于田 - Da Shu Yu Tian
Da shu yu tian. 大叔于田. Shu Has Gone Hunting. Poem by Book of Songs Shijing 詩經. Translation by Robert Payne et al., in The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Newly Translated, pp. 50-51.
Da shu yu tian. 大叔于田. Book of Songs 27. Poem by Book of Songs Shijing 詩經. Translation by Ezra Pound, in Anthology of Chinese Literature: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century, p. 23.
Re: 78. 大叔于田 - Da Shu Yu Tian
The fire is to block the escape of the wild animals.