Having it both ways: manors and manners in Bai Juyi's poetry
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Themes related to residential houses are often featured in the poetry of Bai Juyi (772-846), reflecting his ability to successfully combine the popular image of a detached hermit with the comforts of owning a manorial house. Bai Juyi's satirical poems are concerned with social criticism, in which the condition of elite estates reflects the state of the government. In his more personal poems, Bai Juyi stresses the importance of ownership of real estate that offers him the material conditions necessary to fulfill the spiritual ideal of 'hermitage in officialdom.'
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 1996
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Immediacy and allusion in the poetry of Li Bo
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Six Dynasties poet Li Bo uses allusion to poetic conventions to heighten the immediacy of his poetry. His technique is to record the creative process, including literary allusion as a part of the world to which he responds. Li Bo uses allusion to transcend convention by mastering it, eventually reuniting the personal with the universal. Wine-drinking, as a conventional image of immediacy, is an especially apt metaphor for Li Bo's method of blending conventional allusion and subjective illusion.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 1992
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Reproduction in the 'Shijing' (Classic of Poetry)
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The 'Shijing,' or 'Classic of Poetry, is one of the oldest collections of Chinese poems and cannot be authoritatively dated. Many of these poems are concerned with agriculture, but they also portray a king whose rituals do not produce expected responses and who therefore becomes an intermediary with heavenly ancestors.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2001
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