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

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* 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.

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* 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.

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Comments

140. 東門之楊 - Dong Men Zhi Yang

[x_los]

東門之楊、其葉牂牂。
昏以為期、明星煌煌。

On the willows at the east gate,
The leaves are very luxuriant.
The evening was the time agreed on,
And the morning star is shining bright.

東門之楊、其葉肺肺。
昏以為期、明星晢晢。

On the willows at the east gate,
The leaves are dense.
The evening was the time agreed on,
And the morning star is shining bright.

Re: 140. 東門之楊 - Dong Men Zhi Yang

[x_los]

Time agreed on for what? Romance, or?

Re: 140. 東門之楊 - Dong Men Zhi Yang

[ann712]

I think or.... willows associated with passion and morning star with ecstasy,

Re: 140. 東門之楊 - Dong Men Zhi Yang

[douqi]

Time agreed for romance, but the love interest fails to show up, according to baidu (hence waiting from evening till the rising of the morning star).

Re: 140. 東門之楊 - Dong Men Zhi Yang

[superborb]

This poem sounds very nice when said aloud, because of lots of repeated words

Baike: this poem uses the "fu" technique to describe these scenes instead of "xing". (What is the difference??)