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Tag Archives: T’ao Ch’ien
DAY DARKENS; FORGETTING THE WORDS
Gyōdai wrote: Day darkens; Again the snow Begins to fall. One familiar with conventional Western poetry is likely to ask, “What does it mean?” That is a question inappropriate for hokku. Archibald MacLeish once wrote in his Ars Poetica (“The … Continue reading
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Tagged hokku, poetry, snow, spirituality, T'ao Ch'ien, winter, winter hokku, writing
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MORE ON USING “CHINESE” TECHNIQUE IN ENGLISH POETRY
In looking over past statistics for this site, I noticed that one of the most frequented postings was on writing “Chinese poetry” in English. Of course what is meant by that is poetry written in English, but using the form … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Waley, autumn, Chinese poetry, nature, Poems, spirituality, T'ao Ch'ien, Tao Qian, winter, writing
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