Li Shanggyin Poetry Analysis

During the Tang Dynasty, Li Po and Tu Fu have reigned the literary world with their poetry. Their writing techniques and themes in their poetry allow them to stand out amongst other poets at the time. With the unique aspects and images these poets write about, they distinguish the similarities between themselves and contain different intensities in their poetry. While Li Po has a more relaxed tone to his poetry, Tu Fu deals with the serious aspects of life such as war, poverty, and suffering.

In the following poem, “Which Plant Is Not Faded” and “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” we will be comparing and contrasting both of these poems throughout this essay. Furthermore, we will talk about the poem meaning and how it relates to the ancient Chinese. Secondly, we will explain the song and how it relates to the ancient Chinese. Ultimately, the differences and similarities of the song along with the poem.

In the poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee, the poet discusses the complex relationship between father and son through the son’s constant wanting for his father to tell him a story. Through the use of differing point of view and meaningful structure, the poet tries to highlight the idea of relationships changing as they mature and with time.

“What Plant is Not Faded” is a poem from “The Book of Song”. It was written during Chou Dynasty (1122-249 b.e.). It expressed the “the lament of a Chinese peasant”. Started by four questions, the author described

There are many poems in The Book of Songs. However, the poems “I Beg of You Chung Tzu” and “Thick Grow the Rush Leaves” focus more on love and courtship. This is different from traditional Chinese poetry which focuses on daily life. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the figurative language and elements of Chinese poetry in “I Beg of You Chung Tzu” and “Thick Grow the Rush Leaves.”

Many relationships found in the world or in stories exhibit complexities which make even the simplest tasks difficult. Li-Young Lee portrays this idea in his poem “A Story.” In his poem, Lee unfolds a tale of a man who is unable to tell his son the story which he desires. Furthermore, Lee employs devices such as structure and point of view to reveal how a combination of emotions leads the pair to silence.

Poetry Analysis: The Gift The poem “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee introduces the importance a single event can have upon an individual’s life and most importantly how one individual has the power and capability of shaping the person you will later become in the future. This poem expresses this sentiment through a free form style that changes from past to present, telling a life changing childhood moment and its effect on the actions taken in the present. The author goes about expressing his feelings through a chronological narrative form of writing that personifies the actions that have occurred in his life. This poem both shows the beauty of a father and son relationship but proves that people can impact one another’s lives forever.

A very interesting topic, the article focuses on a white man 's journey to publication in which he has to fake his name in order to have his poem receive recognition. Does the color of your skin matter? In what ways are the life experiences of an Asian American man more fascinating than a white American? Is the poem any good or is it just the writer 's image that is worth anything?

Tao Yuanming regards the money and officialdom as the unimportant thing and wants to pursue the freedom’s life because these characteristics of himself could be showed on Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1. He says, “ By mistake I got caught in that dusty snare, went away once and stayed thirteen years.” This sentence shows he was tired of the officialdom. Also he mentions, “ Elm and willow shade the back eaves, peach and damson ranged in front of the hall.” He describes the beautiful sight of the countryside in order to indirectly express that he was tired of the officialdom and wants live in the freedom and comfortable countryside. From this poem, in my opinion, Tao Yuanming has thoughts of he’s own and brave to abandon more than ten

The 10th poem contains an aura of a solitude; all the reader can encounter along the way is nature interacting with nature. In addition, when I read this poem, I feel that I am reading the most accurate and closest version of the original poem by Wang Wei. Not that I am against other more detached creations of the poem or about other texts in general, however, since there are nineteen different ways to look at the poem, I think it is easier for me to compare poem 10th with any other.

In 1403, the Ming court was searching for writers to document events, so “Shen was chosen to be a compiler at the Imperial Academy” (“Shen Du Ming Dynasty”). Excelling at his job, Emperor Yongle even described him as the “Wang Xizhi of modern times and entrusted him with transcription of the most important official documents” (“Shen Du Ming Dynasty”). His most capable style is “regular script in small characters,” and he set a legacy of the “Official Style” for imperial examination (“Shen Du Ming Dynasty”). I will be examining two of Shen Du’s works—“Letter to Liang Zhongren” and “The Jingzhai Proverbs.” The letter is written with ink on paper, and it was “part of Emperor Qianlong’s collection” (“Letter to Liang Zhongren”). Currently, it is located in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This letter is an example of one of Shen Du’s informal writings, and he could show “intimate expressions of [his] personality” (“Letter to Liang Zhongren”). The second piece is an example of the types of official documents he often wrote. Shen Du wrote it in regular script, the style he became known for, at the age of 62. In this piece, Shen Du contemplates why there are numerous types of books but rarely any self-written poetry. Currently, this piece is is located in The Beijing Palace

Furthermore, The Agreement of Spring Water Delivery also indicated that Li Rihua was not the only tea drinker who needed the spring water from the Mount Hui. After the spring water arrived at Jiaxing, everyone on the list was informed so that they could fetch their own vessels. There was no solid evidence to show who these people were; however, it could be inferred that these people were in friendship with Li Rihua or at least the distance within Li’s influence could reach. They might be the residents in the Jiaxing city. New Gazetteer of Jiaxing recorded that Li Rihua built his house, named Tianzhi Hall, in the eastern suburb near the waterway, where many other luxurious houses belonged to wealthy scholar-officials located. In addition, he also established the Xieshan Tower next to the waterway for the convenience of the scholar-officials’ interactions, such as literary and tea gatherings.

The whole work has a large number of different characters’ people but each of them has been described in detail. Everyone is varying in gestures and full of charm. The houses and boats are well orderly. The trees are flourishing which makes the whole picture has a different aroma. Works with distinctive colors and neat way, actual and meticulous expression of the customs, rivers, historical sites and commercial prosperity of the situation. And each volume has Kangxi Emperor's seal. To a certain extent, the performance of the early Qing Dynasty social life and people's productive labor, so this volume has a precious historical value and artistic

The society portrayed in this story emphasizes the feminine-oriented values in China which cause varying conflicts that affect the lives of many individuals. This signifies the masculine part of the country is bound to follow a specific guideline on love and marriage. To start, the man who is doing underground work in the thirties for the Party in Shanghai, has an old worker give his life to cover him which leaves behind a helpless wife and daughter. Due to the general rules of society, Shanshan explains, “Out of a sense of duty, of gratitude to the dead and deep class feeling, he had unhesitatingly married the daughter” (Jie, 6). This shows readers the conflict between Person vs. Society and how the man cares for the daughter but will never

China is considered to be the first modern state in the world and has existed for thousands of years. Throughout the millennia, this civilisation and its people have continued to develop the cultural practices such as sacred teachings, which consequently has influenced their art style. Therefore, in this essay I will explore and compared themes such as Confucianism, Taoism and even their written word and how those have influences art in China through the ages.