This literary study will define the emotional response of “heroic abandon” and the Haofang School in the poetry of Su Shi. The poem, “Song for a River Tune”, defines the emotional struggle of Su Shi, as he comes to understand his own mortality. References to the natural world represent a form of freedom from the suffering of life, which Su Shi conveys by imagining heavenly scenes by the river. Dreaming of fantasy-based architecture forms the basis of escapist behaviors, which Su Shi expresses as part of the “heroic abandon” of responsibility and the suffering of life. More so, Su Shi utilizes the ci style of poetry to reflect the lay traditions of lyricism to evoke emotional response from the reader. In essence, this essay will examine the …show more content…
He does not rule out the art of powerful emotions…They allow the artist to dispassionately observe the world around him, to “take in” all manner of worldly events, and they permit accurate self-reflection.
In this manner, the application of the ci style provides a foundation for poems, such as “Song for the River Tune”, that illustrate the common emotions that Si Shi was feeling as he sits by the river and observes the moon. This is how Su Shi applies the traditional mode of lyrical themes in the poem, which reflect the direct emotions that he expresses. This is an important foundation in the development of “heroic abandon” that become more involved in the examination of this poem. “Song for the River Tune” is based Su Shi’s observation of a moon by the river. The title of the poem infers that Su Shi has utilized the theme of a river song to express his own emotions about the beauty of the moon and the fantasy architecture that he witnesses in the sky. More so, Su Shi is drunk, which presents a direct expression of his own drunken state by the river. Drunkenness is a vital component of Su Shi’s poems, since he is honest about his own inebriated state of mind as a basis for the palace fantasy scene he is creating. More so, drunkenness is a direct escape from the sober realities of the world, which make the consumption of wine a seemingly natural component of his emotional state of mind. For instance, the poems begins with Su Shi’s escapist perception of the moon and the clouds as a type of kingdom in the
First of alll, the poem is divided into nine stanzas, where each one has four lines. In addition to that, one can spot a few enjambements for instance (l.9-10). This stylistic device has the function to support the flow of the poem. Furthermore, it is crucial to take a look at the choice of words, when analysing the language.
Have you ever marveled at the powerful stories a poem can tell with just words? I will be analyzing the similarities and differences in figurative language and the elements of Chinese poetry in the Chinese poems “I Beg of You, Chung Tzu” and “Thick Grow the Rush Leaves.”
This book was also one of my first encounters with an important truth of art: that your work is powerful not because you convey a new emotion to the audience, but because you tap into an emotion the audience already feels but can't express.
Lee was able to depict such an arduous relationship between a father and son… a relationship that Lee says shall one day fail, but for now, it is pure and full of emotion. The love the father has for the child, for wanting to keep him by his side is one of true compassion. The complexity between the child being so delighted and displaying such admiration, of wanting his father to read him another bedtime story; to one of which, is screaming at his father for wanting to keep him as a child. This sort of relationship was able to be composed by the use of imagery between the father ageing and the scratching of his ear; to the use of the poems structure layout and point of view all played massive roles in the understanding and perception of this literary art work. Thus, the relationship between the father and son is one of compassion and affection; which, cannot be told using simple minded tactics such as logic and
Although still adopting a traditional literary form, the poetry writing can be regarded as an example of the heterogeneity and border-crossing of cultural-scape in globalization period. Those poems were produced under the brunt of the international mobility that is propelled by the capitalist globalization, but precisely and paradoxically, in a suspending situation caused by national regulation, a “state of exception” of this mobility. The juxtaposition of the frustration on foreign life and the flare of nationalist emotion (with the rhetoric emulating ancient barbarian-expelling heroes), may imply a paradoxical consequence in globalization: the international mobility undergirding the national awareness instead of undermining it. Following this thread, the publication of this kind of poetry in 1930s, the oblivion of it after war, and the subsequent re-discovery, recognition, and research of it can be all taken as symptomatic traces of the localization, articulation, and transformation of national consciousness (both as “Chinese” and “American”) in the continuous globalization. Needless to say, those poems are deeply flawed in terms of aesthetics due to the rather poor literacy of their authors. It would be invoking to put these poems beside those “high art” works also produced in globalization context, such as the works on the Eiffel Tower and the London fog by Huang Zunxian (黄遵宪), a late Qin intellectual caught in between the East and the West, the
Figurative Language in used throughout poems so the reader can develop a further understanding of the text. In “The Journey” the author uses rhythm and metaphors throughout the poem. “...as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of the clouds..”(25-27). The author compares the star burning to finding your voice. Rhythm also develops the theme of the poem because throughout the story rhythm is presented as happy showing growing up and changing for the better is necessary and cheerful. In “The Laughing Heart” the author uses imagery and metaphors to develop the theme throughout the book. “There is a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness”(5-7). Always find the good out of everything, even it
Literature shows us the changes of our society from time to time. It also gives us an idea about people, culture, politics, gender traditions, as well as an overall view of previous civilizations. As a part of literature, poetry introduces us to different cultures with different perspectives. Ancient Egypt and ancient China may differ in terms of culture, politics, economic stability, tradition, or even in religious belief. However, in poetry, especially in love lyrics both Egyptian and Chinese poems portray common area of describing women, social attitudes toward love, sexuality and the existence of romance or selfishness in relationships. . If we look at the Egyptian poem “My god, my Lotus” and the Chinese poem “Fishhawk”, we will see both poems have similarities in describing relationships. Also, they have the similarity of imagining the lovers and their expression of love toward each other. However, both poems have some significant differences in terms of representing female sexuality, gender disparity and the display of love.
The poem “LXXVI. Zhongzi, Please” from Classic of Poetry, is about a girl who is fearful that her lover, Zhongzi, coming into her life will bring disapproval from her parents, brother, and society. The meaning can be reveled through the use of literary qualities such as images and repetition.
Comparing Ben Bertram’s [Response] and Kogawa’s Road Building by Pick Axe is an interesting exercise. There are two primary points of comparison : First, why did each author choose to use the form of poetry that they did, haiku for Bertram and blank verse for Kogawa; Secondly, what using that form of poetry accomplished for their poem. The reason that these poems should be read together is because Bertram raises several important questions about Kogawa’s writing that will help you to better understand Kogawa’s message.
During the Han dynasty, a particular style of poetry was formed, this was known as the ‘Han Poetry’. The Han poetry (Chinese literature) reflected great cultural achievement, many of these poems have survived until today, thanks to the creation of paper.
I found that throughout this poem there was much symbolism within it. Identifying that it was written in first person form showed that this poem relates to the author on a personal basis, and that it was probably written to symbolize his life. But when talking about people’s lives, you can conclude that people’s lives are generally and individually very diffe...
He declares that there are many different ways in which a subject views a piece of art – based on everything from music to location to current emotion – and that that is not the same meaning that the artist intended. However, there are an infinite amount of factors that play into interpretation. Humans, thankfully, exhibit very different reactions to things, from likeminded to completely opposite, yet very rarely are they identical. Regardless of the outside disturbances, while unraveling the meaning behind a piece of art the different subjects will have inherently different interpretations. People may have a slightly augmented sense of a piece of art while in its physical presence but the initial reaction very often still remains. To use a personal example, for the longest time I have been underwhelmed by the so-called unparalled beauty of perhaps the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. When given the opportunity to visit the Louvre in Paris I was only given, as I said, a heightened sense of my original reaction to the painting. Housed in its own personal room, implanted on an oversized white wall, hanging behind bullet proof glass case sat the painting I had seen 100,000 other times. I was dissatisfied, but with the room packed shoulder to shoulder with many others tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of Da Vinci’s masterpiece, I suppose I may have been the only one. Perhaps – which leads into Berger’s second point – all those people so eager to see the Mona Lisa had been, as he describes, “mystified.” He believes that the average art expert has the ability to blindfold the reader and transfer their assumptions onto them – which perhaps is true if the subject has no real interest in the art itself. Everything that one is told about anything with highly interpretable qualities
describes the emptiness of the scenery; “this mountain and I gaze at each other, it alone remaining.” (Hinton, David. Selected Poems Li Po”). As a seasoned traveler, his poems traveled with him throughout many lands. In addition, word of his talent spre...
This symbolizes his intense insightfulness of the capacity of human emotion the ability to feel different from what ones ap...
The mind creates the emotions and ideals responsible for art. The brain is capable of imagining glorious things, and art is the physical manifestation of these ideals. These ideals are usually intense emotions with aesthetic power (Wilson, 220). Art organizes these emotions in a matter that can easily express the ideals to...