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Poetic Analysis

In the evening years given to quietude

Talks about his seclusion to meditation, how his life is simplified because he lives in quietude.

To The Assistant Prefect Chang

Cont.

The world's worries no concern of mine

Songs of fishermen float to the still shore

Talks about the riddance of worldly desires, and being disconnected from the world

Wang Wei represents the fisherman, and the songs are his poems. Wang Wei is hiding away, but his poems still meet the outside world.

Literary Analysis

In the evening years given to quietude,

The world's worries no concern of mine,

For my own needs making no other plan

Than to unlearn, return to long-loved woods:

I loosen my robe before the breeze of pines,

My lute celebrates moonlight on mountain pass.

You ask what rule "failure" or "success"-

Songs of fishermen float to the still shore.

  • Speaker is a Buddhist monk
  • Mood is free, simple, and happy
  • The moon resembles a clean mirror that reflects without judgement
  • Uses imagery to design a mountain forest

Wang Wei

Cont.

My lute celebrates moonlight on mountain pass.

Literary Analysis: Buddhism

Moonlight=Peace

Happy with his life of Buddhism

You ask what rule "failure" or "success" -

How Buddhism has given him a new prespective on what "failure" and "success" is due to his lifestyle

  • Was a vivid painter during the Tang dynasty
  • Focused on nature and the concept of Buddhism
  • Passed the chih-shih test as a 21 year old
  • A leader of the Ch'an Buddhism school
  • Left government and retreated to the mountains
  • Master of Shih poetry (4 lines)
  • Buddhism greatly affected his poetry
  • Regarded as one of China's best poets
  • Based off of the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama
  • Buddhism has the philosophy that contains the thought that all life is sorrow, and sorrow is caused by desires
  • To eliminate sorrow one must terminate desires
  • To do so, Wei said one should meditate and discipline theirself
  • Notable teaching of Buddhism: conecept of quietude

Cont.

To The Assistant Prefect Chang

By: Wang Wei

For my own needs making no other plan

Than to unlearn, return to long-loved woods:

Enjambment; Reclusive lifestyle

I unloosen my robe before the breeze of the pines

Robe resembles the weight of the world and exceptance from society

Kerrigan McCormick

B4 Honors English

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