Document Type
Pre-Qin Times
Publication Date
3-28-2022
Abstract
This episode looks at the concerted effort by three prominent Han commentators to allegorize a poem made up of disjointed or rather conflicting parts. It also reflects on the ironic fact that Han commentators’ allegorizing process itself constitutes a beautiful exercise of literary imagination, foreshadowing the fruitful exploitation of semantic, syntactic, and structural ambiguities by Du Fu, Li Shangyin, and other Tang poets.
Episode
Episode 9
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Cai, Z. (2022, Mar 28). The Book of Poetry: The Han canonization: Dead deer meat as a gift [9]. In How to read Chinese poetry podcast. Hong Kong: Lingnan University. Retrieved from https://commons.ln.edu.hk/poetry_podcast/9/