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Classical Poetry · LT102

Chu Elegies

Romantic Southern Chu poetic elegies characterized by emotional intensity and mythic imagery.

7works

4dynasties

7authors

Masters & Authors

8 authors

Zhou

2 works

1046–221 BCE

Nine Arguments · ExcerptSong YuHow sad is the breath of autumn! Rustling and bleak, the grass and trees shed their leaves, wither and decay.
Songs of ChuLiu Xiang (comp.)Long, long is the road and far the journey; I shall search high and low.

Han

3 works

202 BCE – 220 CE

Three Kingdoms

1 works

220–280

Poem of Sorrow and Indignation · Part II (Sao Form)Cai Yan (Cai Wenji)The Hu reed pipes sound, the border horses neigh; a lone wild goose flies home, crying plaintively.

Tang

1 works

618–907

Heaven Answered · ExcerptLiu ZongyuanAnswer: The vastness of the primal beginning is something told by fabulists. Its great spirit, dim and tangled, how can it be put into words? Darkness and light, faint and minute, came and went in ceaseless profusion; through murky transformations only the primal qi endured, so what was there that 'brought it about'?