![]() ![]() Part of the fabled Silk Road, an endless repository of wondrous stories. And it's no coincidence that each of the above was a Like Xanadu, Samarkand, Baghdad, the Levant and Venice each conjure up a wealth Schools of poetry) were heavily influenced by Chinese and Japanese poets,Ĭertain times, events and places have a magic of association about them - names As I've mentioned before on the Minstrels, the Imagists (one of my favourite ![]() Intensity and dedication that that profession demands. Gently sympathetic - he pokes fun at his chosen profession, yet acknowledges the Po is not pompous or pretentious about the importance of his art rather, he's Of course, the fact that 'About Tu Fu' is, in reality, about the nature of That no other ending could possibly work there's an ineffable 'rightness' about That having set the scene, the poet surprises us with a brilliantly unexpected Is no mean achievement, but what I really like about today's poem is the way Phrases to paint a verbal picture that's delicate and expressive. ![]() ![]() Like the best Imagist poets in English, Li Po uses the simplest of words and Hamil" and left it at that, so I've done the same. I don't know who Hamil is every single Li Po webpage turned up by Google said Tu Fu was another famous Chinese poet and contemporary of Li Po's the pinyin I've chosen to retain the name by which he's most widely The pinyin form of the poet's name is Li Bo, while the Wade-Giles anglicizedįorm is Li T'ai-Po. ( Poem #504) About Tu Fu I met Tu Fu on a mountaintop ![]()
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