Chinese poetry: Different sub genre in different times.
• Gushi,Tangshi,song ci
• Rhythmic, tonal, compact, chanted, visual.
• Poetry tends to be both visual and callrigaphigated
• Steve jobs took a course of calligraphy
• Chinese poetry is visual but it’s chanted and it’s meant to be read aloud The book of odes
• Earliest anthology
• 300 poems on a wide subject matter
• Some chanted some sung and some danced
• Lyrical rather than narrative Emphasis on rhyme regular lines
•standard number of syllables One of the classic of early Chinese literary canon • Tend to be lyrical
•Poetry if the tang world famous
• Profoundly influential in japan
• Li Bai
• Raised in Sichuan from the periphery of the empire
•Like to drink
• Famous for short and long poems
• Japanese Haiku poets loved his work
• Dufu didn’t pass exams
• Met with an lushan rebellion
• Spend latter half of his life travelling
• Su dong poetry we’re like songs
• Singing poetry of the Song Dynasty called ci, sung to popular dhoooid
• Originated at the pleasure quarter •
We most important Chinese poetry well knowing in Japan’s Tang poet: buuui Chinese japanese relationship Admiration of Chinese culture on the Japanese part- language , religion , institution culture and poetry Major Chinese poetic works brought back from japan
Japanese poetry: no use of rhyme
• No use of stress accent
•Shall I compare thee to a summers day? English is a stress timed language No tones(even though there’s is a pitch accent)
• English does not have this either so English example These two features make japanese poetry radically different than Chinese or English poetry and that alone makes it worthy of study
Japanese: rhythmic units of language 5 or 7 syllabus
• Intensity of language( which is difficult to maintain over long
passages) Haiku: 5-7-5
• Tanka 5-7-5-7-7
• Most poems are subjective and emotional and tend to be readable across periods. Moralistic poems not very common. Intellectual poems also uncommon. The themes of the poems translate well.
Ono no Komachi
Uses of poems: love
• Power( gain notice by those with power)
•Economics (similar to power)
• But other forms of poetry are also practiced Chinese poems especially tang style shi Can write them according to rules Can take up topics forbidden Haiku: develop from linked verse
• 17 syllables
• Seasoned word • Cutting word
• Popular culture to high art
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