why? just because crackas dont understand the standard poetic allusions? it doesnt mean anything different in the original chinese, though it does sound better.
oh hahahaha okay youre a bad azn. i know, its a really weird poem - even by t'ang standards. mao zedong called him 'the ghost [of poetry]' thw whole thing is full of t'ang symbols and references; in chinese folklore rabbits cassia trees and toads inhabit the moon. the cloud mansion i think refers to the mansion of the goddess chang'e who stole a cassia immortality potion (the leaves of the tree make you immortal) from her husband and was exiled to the moon. basically the poem is referring to the moons ring of moisture as being the tears of its lonesome inhabitants, and the perspective is of them looking back at the earth from the moon: "Gaze afar at the Middle Provinces: nine dots of smoke," the nine dots of smoke is a wistful way of describing china japan and the indonesian islands. the pattern of the poem is the best part for me - the way it starts on earth interpreting the ring as tears then follows 'the cassia scented path' chang'e's obvi. up to the moon and then looks back at the earth. its a well crafted bit. anyway thats the gist.
it doesnt mean anything different in the original chinese, though it does sound better.
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i know, its a really weird poem - even by t'ang standards.
mao zedong called him 'the ghost [of poetry]'
thw whole thing is full of t'ang symbols and references; in chinese folklore rabbits cassia trees and toads inhabit the moon. the cloud mansion i think refers to the mansion of the goddess chang'e who stole a cassia immortality potion (the leaves of the tree make you immortal) from her husband and was exiled to the moon.
basically the poem is referring to the moons ring of moisture as being the tears of its lonesome inhabitants, and the perspective is of them looking back at the earth from the moon:
"Gaze afar at the Middle Provinces: nine dots of smoke,"
the nine dots of smoke is a wistful way of describing china japan and the indonesian islands.
the pattern of the poem is the best part for me - the way it starts on earth interpreting the ring as tears then follows 'the cassia scented path' chang'e's obvi. up to the moon and then looks back at the earth.
its a well crafted bit.
anyway thats the gist.
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