The Classic of Poetry
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artemisia
artemisia any of various aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia in the composite family, having green or grayish foliage
Chou or Chow or Zhou (jo)
a Chinese dynasty (traditionally dated 1122-221 B.C.) characterized by great intellectual achievements, including the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
consort
wife
counterpart
(1) duplicate, facsimile (2) complement (3) a person or thing having the same function as another; (4) equivalent
enumeration
the telling of sequences of events in straightforward narrative fashion
feng
wind, airs, customs, influence, criticism
fishhawk
an osprey; a fish eating hawk having plumnage that is dark on the back and white below
Hsing
an initial image that sets the mood or tone for the human situation in the poem
millet
the grains of an annual grass cultivated in Eurasia
quince
the many-seeded, hard, applelike fruit of the western Asian shrub or tree having white flowers
remonstration
the outspoken criticism of superiors who neglect their duties or abuse their power
sinologist
one who studies Chinese language, literature, or civilization
watercress
a pungent perennial Eurasian ( of mixed European and Asian descent) herb of the mustard family, growing in ponds and streams and often used as a garnish
winnow
to separate the chaff from grain by means of a current of air
The Classic of Poetry (also Book of Songs or Book of Odes) is the oldest poetry collection of what area of the world?
east asia
In addition to conveying the history and values of the earlier part of the Zhou Dynasty (ca.
1045-256 B.
C.C.), the Classic of Poetry conveys what familiar themes from folk ballads?
courtship, marriage and love, birth and death, and the stages of ag. cycle
Classic of Poetry is filled with images of nature and the plain life of what type of society?
agricultural
Classic of Poetry has had a profound influence on the literatures of what three countries?
Korea, japan, and Vietnam
With what did Chinese literature originate?
Classic Poetry
How many poems does Classic of Poetry include?
305
Tradition credits what person as the compiler of the Classic of Poetry?
Confucius
From what did he allegedly select the poems in the collection?
from the 3,000 he found in the archives
The choice and arrangement of the poems, therefore, were seen as an expression of what?
Confucius’s philosophy
When was the Great Preface written?
more than 1/2 millennium after the anthologies complication
What were the “six principles” (liu yi) of poetry, according to the Great Preface?
3 categories in which the poems were placed and 3 rhetorical devices
To what does feng refer?
influence and criticism
Almost all of the poems in the Classic of Poetry were written by whom?
anonymous
The Classic of Poetry is a collection of many voices. List some of these.
kings, pesants
What suggests that a member of the educated elite at the courts of the Zhou must have given some of the poems their final shape?
literary skill
What are two important themes in the “Airs” section?
constraints from society
conflict between individual desire and social expectation
conflict between individual desire and social expectation
Marriage is often praised as what? Other poems celebrate the pleasure of what?
sanctioned form of sex
What is the central stylistic device of the Classic of Poetry?
repetition with variation
The stanza format encourages what?
line repeating
The line repetitions result in what other two characteristics?
melodic rhythm and into to small variation
What are two interesting rhetorical devices listed in the “Great Preface” to the Classic of Poetry?
enumeration and evocative image
Poems from the “Airs” section, by contrast, mostly employ what?
comparisons and evocative images
What is Xing? (See page 1322 of your text.) this is the same as hsing, which Paula Berggren refers to in Teaching with the Norton Anthology of World Literature. (See the third bullet under “Boat of Cypress.”)
stimulus or excitement
Although Ezra Pound (1885-1972) did not know Chinese, what did he produce in collaboration with Harvard sinologist Achilles Fang?
poetic rendering
Why was Classic of Poetry “part and parcel of the education of political elites”?
all about Confucius
Despite the dominant moralizing interpretations, the poems of the Classic of Poetry have done what two things?
retained their simplicity and has not lost evocative power
“The Great Preface” claims that poetry is the perfect means to do what?
give expressions to ones more inner thoughts
Conversely, later readers can reconstruct what from the poem?
the poets political and social circumstances
More importantly, poetry possesses the power to do what?
create and maintain political order in society and harmony with the spirit world
These arguments about the power of poetry hinges on the definition of what term?
feng
Name the multiple meanings for “feng.”
wind, airs, influences
Define “remonstration.”
the outspoken criticism of superiors who neglect their duties or abuse their power
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