Hello, Ally,
Shall I invite you come to talk to my class?
Pleased to see your note. I know that we all belong to the same human specis but classical Chinese poems seem to articulate certain aspects of sentimentality which I do not find in poems in English within my limited expore.
Quite like all the suggestions about poetry introduction -give me a chance to start from the beginning. Thanks to all.
Yiyan
Ally Kerr wrote:
> the one that convinced me all poets weren't sensitive souls divorced from the real world was Arthur Waley's 170 Chinese Poems. They may go back centuries but they sounded much more like people I knew and could identify with than Keats, Wordsworth and Shelley who i had to pretend to like at school. And nowadays they sound much more like people I know and can identify with than Prynne, reading and all the others I can't understand...
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> Ally Kerr
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