Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Lessons from the States, Odes Of Wei II

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* I know the two titular Weis are confusing; I believe they're different characters both rendered thus in Pinyin.

* I found the best option for the weekly reminder emails, via Gmail. The external service options are more involved than our purposes require. Does anyone know anything about how to arrange an Apps Script? Basically all it has to do is tell ten people, on Saturdays, to come and get their juice/poems. 

* 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.

* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.

* 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.

Comments

Re: 109. 園有桃 - Yuan You Tao

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Actually I really like 'the reason you don't know why I'm upset is frankly because you don't want to know--if you wanted to know, it'd be pretty fucking obvious to you' as a note for this to hit.

So these trees are ornamental and of use, and this person wants to be of use but has instead been scorned and relegated to some runner-up scholar position.

I believe 'the verge of license' indicates the scholar is dangerously close to speaking his mind too freely and criticising people he shouldn't, because he's pissed about being overlooked.