Baike: Cao country officials sadly observing the decline of the Zhou dynasty, as states bully weaker ones, and so they miss the stable situation of when the Zhou first held power.
People are apparently in conflict over if the last stanza (and its sudden departure from the structure of the first three) is done well or not. The first three stanzas follow a common Shijing sentence structure, where only the last word of the first sentence and the last two of the second differ. Then the last stanza is structurally different. I think the doubts are for if this last stanza belongs in this poem at all?
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Re: 曹風 - Odes Of Cao; 153. 下泉 - Xia Quan
Date: 2021-03-14 06:54 pm (UTC)People are apparently in conflict over if the last stanza (and its sudden departure from the structure of the first three) is done well or not. The first three stanzas follow a common Shijing sentence structure, where only the last word of the first sentence and the last two of the second differ. Then the last stanza is structurally different. I think the doubts are for if this last stanza belongs in this poem at all?