![]() Wang Wei was the eldest of five brothers raised in a literaryįamily in Shansi province. And the wonderful lilt of song of the closing line! I think Mr. If this translation fails to note the spaces betweenīird cry and bird cry, it nonetheless compresses the experience of the Tension, and the "alarm" grants permission as it were for theĬlosing sentence fragment, a fragment that opens out into nature likeīirdsong itself. I would also remove the "is" in line two. ![]() People," I don't feel the spirit of the poem has been ![]() While the "person at leisure" magically becomes "few Long moment of song in the spring ravine. Night is quiet, the spring mountain empty. Poems of Wang Wei (University Press of New England, 1992): Version from the collaborative team of Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone,Īnd Xu Haixin, from Laughing Lost in the Mountains. While each of these versions is in some way "good enough"įor study or commentary, none really rises to the occasion like this new APA style: Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei. ![]() Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei." Retrieved from
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