Chinese poetry

I am an advocate of social justice and like to express untold sufferings through forms of art like poetry, photography and paintings. As an artist myself, I know one is always sensitive to feeling the pain of others and is inclined to express that remorse and devastation of one's spirit through words. By this mean, the poetic language as well as dramatic performance. No matter what kind of violence one is going through, violence is evil and traumatic. There is only one way to speak against it,

Elizabeth Blankenship Dr. Zhai FLIT 216 September 18, 2014 Classic of Poetry and Lyrics of Chu in Contrast Classic of Poetry or Shi Jing, China’s oldest surviving collection of poetry, contains 305 poems, which are separated into three sections including the Airs of the States (feng), Courtly Songs (ya), and Odes (song); the topics of which, respectively, concern the lives of commoners, the lives of aristocrats, and religious rites. Shi Jing was formed during Zhou dynasty over a period exceeding

usage and aspects of diverse meanings and values of poetry, the Oxford dictionary explanation opens up the wide field of interests. From Anciet Greek, poetry (ποιεω (poieo) means ´I create´ or ´I make´. It is the creation of aesthetic qualities, mostly within rhythmic or metric sound, but still more popular free verse wording, too. The combination of poetic words express various ideas in diverse cultures. According to Webster dictionary, poetry is ´ writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative

Li Bai: A Life in Words The Tang dynasty of classical era China is renowned for its influence in the realm of the fine arts, including: poetry, pottery, painting, and magnificent calligraphy. Two well-known poets of the Tang dynasty are the greats, Li Bai and Du Fu, both known for their flamboyant and free-spirited poetry. Of the two, the poems of Li Bai that are still around today massively outnumber those of Du Fu. The life-story of the poet Li Bai is steeped in extravagance, as well as, hardship

I chose to focus on Wang Xi Meng's Chinese landscape painting, A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains. Wang painted this at the age of eighteen, in the year 1113, during the Song Dynasty. This eminent thirty-nine foot long scroll was one of the most inimitable of its time, displayed to this day in the Palace Museum, located in China’s capital, Beijing. Later being nicknamed the "Great age of Chinese landscape", critics highly honored these nature scene works of art. There was no vanishing point,

-The Chinese term for "landscape" is made up of two characters meaning "mountains and water." It is linked with the philosophy of Daoism, which emphasizes harmony with the natural world. Khan -By the late Tang dynasty, landscape painting had evolved into an independent genre that embodied the universal longing of cultivated men to escape their quotidian world to commune with nature. Such images also convey specific social, philosophical, or political convictions. During the early Song dynasty, visions

critic, Pound, believed that poetry was the highest of the arts. You never would have believed that a writer and optimist such as Ezra Pound would have been born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885. From the sound of his work you'd thing he was definitely one of those European Imagist. In 1908, after teaching college for two years, Pound traveled abroad to Spain, Italy, and London. He followed the teachings of Ernest Fenellosa and became very intrigued by Japanese and Chinese poetry. The literary figure who has

most successful poets of the last thirty years, yet he remains rather controversial when it comes to scholarly criticism of his work. Some detractors believe his work to be simplistic and obvious. They believe it lacks the depth necessary for good poetry. Other, however, believe him to be a genius, a writer who is able to provide unmatched insight into the world around us. A critic for the Washington Post describes his works saying, “He takes the mundane thing and shows you its mystery. And he takes

monastery. Shouping was never loyal to the Manchus but instead focused himself to learn the art of poetry, calligraphy and painting. Shouping received a traditional artistic education, he trained to obey the rules of copying the work of earlier art masters. His artwork were freehand which meant he didn’t trace anything, he just saw the subject and “eyeball” it out. This takes years of

Chinese art styles and traditions have been passed down from generation to generation. Today traditional Chinese paintings are known as “guo hua.” This traditional method is done by using a paint brush that is dipped in black or colored ink and then placing designs on either paper or silk. After the artwork was completed it was usually mounted to scrolls and hung for people to view. There are other traditional techniques as well. “Gong-bi”, which focused on detail and mainly referred to portraits