Chinese poetry

Anti-War is always one of the most popular themes that writers want to address in their works. According to world literature history, the idea of anti-war first appeared in a Chinese poetry collection called the Book of Songs. From that points, writers had different background cultures started to develop their own perspectives towards war and stated them in their own works by varies methods. The following essay will compare and contrast two master anti-war pieces called “What Plants are Not-Faded

festival.From here we can seen that the Mid-Autumn celebration is one of the most significant part of the Chinese cultural heritage.This festival is known in Malaysia as the Mooncake festival due to the popular practice of buying and eating mooncakes.As it is connected with paper lanterns, it is also called the Lantern Festival. Mooncake festival take place on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese Lunar Calender every year, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. On that

Program #11 The Sacred Words: Elements of Poetry 1. Understand the importance of economy of language in poetry. It is important because it is the fewest words to fully get your idea across, not rambling on. Program #12: A Sense of Place 1. Show how clues and information in the poem about the setting affect a poem's meaning for a reader It affects it changing the reader’s vision about what they are reading. 2. Discuss how a reader's understanding of a poem is affected by

A bildungsroman is a story showing the evolution of a character from an innocent childhood to a greater understanding of life that comes with adulthood. In Li-Young Lee’s poem, Persimmons, he tells the story of the speaker in an episodic manner to convey how the chapters of life are intertwined and the impact they all have on one another. This is a free verse poem and lends itself to the assumption of being autobiographical. It begins with the speaker in sixth grade being lectured by his teacher

A dictum from Heraclitus may illustrate the origin of romantic poetry, “when we are awake we have a world in common, but when we are asleep each has his own world” (Quoted by O'Connell 35). As conceived from the innermost being, romantic poems have a close relationship with dream. However, as the definitions and characteristics are controversial, some critics oppose to use the term “Romanticism”. For instance, Arthur Lovejoy criticizes that “Romanticism” is an obscure norm when defined by associating

understood, which something else, transmits to us through the emotions, it arouses, something of the wholeness, the depth and richness of the way the writer view’s conceives or has felt what he is telling us’. Imagery is all pervasive in Tagore’s poetry and it gives a kind of unit to it. An epithet, a Metaphor or a simile may create an image.

writing that is entitled “Heaven.” Cathy Song is an Asian American poet who is the speaker in this first person poem. Song exemplifies the romantic spirit by evoking reminiscence and separation. In the poem, a woman who is disconnected from her Chinese heritage longs for her familial homeland that she has never seen. She is amused by her son’s notion that "when we die we’ll go to China." She expresses her disbelief of where she currently resides but wants to imagine that she is in China where

The Classic of Poetry is an old poetry book that reflects the Chinese history around 700 B.C.E. Compiled by philosopher Confucius, the poems analyze ideas of politics, love and relationships, agriculture, and more. The poems display a deeper meaning of life through the use of imagery. Nature and animals have been the pieces that have connected the underlying message throughout all of the poems. In the sonnet “Peach Tree Soft and Tender”, the narrator depicts a woman entering into adulthood through

Li-Young Lee was first born at Indonesia in 1957 (“For a New Citizen of These United States” 55). His parents were highly educated and influential to their chinese country (“For a New Citizen of These United States” 55) Although, it was not long until his father was imprisoned after Li-Young’s birth (“For a New Citizen of These United States” 55). Considering that lee's father had persecuted China's population and was strongly known due to being the very own personal physicist for his country (“Early

Count: 532 To me, math contains elements that make it both physically and mentally beautiful. Leonardo Da Vinci used the golden ratio for the “Vitruvian Man.” The Chinese poet Wen Yiduo created an architecture of orderliness by developing a new form of poetry. Adding word limits in every four lines in a poem, he allowed this new style of poetry to express rhythmic beauty. I’ve always loved math, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve come to appreciate its interdisciplinary nature as well. Math has the ability