Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language. The various versions Chinese include Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Yue Chinese, and other historical and vernacular types. In other words, Chinese poetry refers to poetry written or spoken in the Chinese language. The various versions of Chinese poetry, as known historically and to the general knowledge of the modern world, include two primary types, Classical Chinese poetry and Modern Chinese poetry.
Poetry has consistently been held in extremely high regard, in China, often incorporating wonderfully expressive folk influences filtered through the minds of Chinese literati. In Chinese culture, poetry has provided a format and a forum for both public and private expressions of deep emotion, offering a rare vantage point for an audience of peers, readers, and scholars insight into the inner life of Chinese writers across more than two millennia. The essential contrasts between the path taken by the Western world and that of Chinese civilization find an exemplification in this rich Chinese poetic tradition, thus making it potentially an interesting and pleasurable object of study for Westerners.
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“Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named therethat, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)