A review by obscuredbyclouds
Three Tang Dynasty Poets by Li Po, Tu Fu, Wang Wei
2.0
This is a collection of poems by three Chinese poets from the Tang Dynasty.
A lot of times poetry makes me feel so stupid but I try just to accept the fact that most poems do nothing to me. Still I think it's good, at least, that I expose myself to some poetry now and then to see if anything changes (also: it's not that I don't like ANY kind of poetry, I really Larkin after all...).
I did not enjoy any of the Wang Wei or Li Po poems. That doesn't they are "bad" but they did nothing for me. But I did regret that I stopped studying Chinese because I had a feeling this would be more interesting to read in the original version because a lot of times translations of poems are just very... off.
I did like some of the Tu Fu and I can see myself trying out some more of his work eventually.
A lot of times poetry makes me feel so stupid but I try just to accept the fact that most poems do nothing to me. Still I think it's good, at least, that I expose myself to some poetry now and then to see if anything changes (also: it's not that I don't like ANY kind of poetry, I really Larkin after all...).
I did not enjoy any of the Wang Wei or Li Po poems. That doesn't they are "bad" but they did nothing for me. But I did regret that I stopped studying Chinese because I had a feeling this would be more interesting to read in the original version because a lot of times translations of poems are just very... off.
I did like some of the Tu Fu and I can see myself trying out some more of his work eventually.