EAS103H1 Lecture Notes - Sui Dynasty, Chinese Poetry, Bai Juyi
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Behavior of emperor who loved one more than others. Song of everlasting regret = about incident of emperor xuanzong. Known for being easy to understand, wrote in a variety of styles. Li bai (701-762) drinking alone by moonlight . Du fu (712-777) the journey north= course reader, autumn meditations= textbook= confucian poet. Han yu (768-824) memorial on the buddha bone . Su shi (song dynasty) first prose poem on the red cliff . Only have a tiny fraction of what was actually written by tang poets. Song= printed books, tang= written by hand. Impractical answer= poetry and writing is a means that writers that they could achieve immortality aka being remembered after they die. Book of songs: 305 poems, earliest surviving chinese poetry, ritual hymns, folk songs, love songs, supposedly edited by confucius, became a source of moral conduct. State that is spontaneous and manifests itself in poetry. Poets conscious that their writing would surpass them.
