How nice, anyway, that the Chinese have garnered this nugget of ephemeral beauty from one poet’s stop inEngland – it’s good for more than just Manchester United shirts and discount Burberry! (I thought maybe you’d intended to write “defend.”) Either way, “define” works well, as walls do seem to define empires, just as the divisions between and among us define strife, unlike the harmony exhibited both by this poem and your apt appreciation of it. Their reflections on the shimmering waves. Just to pole a boat upstream. The golden willows by the riverside, Are young brides in the setting sun; Their reflections on the shimmering waves, Always linger in the depth of my heart. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Not even a wisp of cloud will I bring away. Change ), My Sunshine (何以笙箫默): Episode 13 Review and Recap | Fanatical, Silent Separation (何以笙箫默) – Gu Man (Chapter 5) | Fanatical, https://beyondtheflow.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/z-xu-zhimo-on-leaving-cambridge-letters-to-dead-poets/. Not only that, his most famous poem, a poem Chinese school children know by heart, is called ‘Leaving Cambridge Again’ or ‘Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again’. Holds not water but the rainbow from the sky; To seek a dream? But Xu Zhimo didn’t go to Oxford, he went to Cambridge. There is a spot on the river Cam, near where Xu Zhimo used to sit where a plaque commemorates him, and it is pointed out to the groups of Chinese tourists who float by on specially enlarged rented punts. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Apparently, Tagore received a very hostile response, although Xu was full of praise and support. Most intriguing of all is the ‘heart’ that rests in the sludge of the river Cam, that seems to speak of Xu’s desire to be suspended in the moment, his desire to stay in this dream of Cambridge that is reflected in the river. ( Log Out / Thanks for dropping by. The presenter had explained their route related to cultural links to China, so it was conceivable that they might be interested in a wall, like their own, built to define an empire and keep out hostile tribes. Your series looks interesting, anyway – I will take a look at my leisure, I think. Thanks for the comment, Rowena. QIAO Xing-lan (School of Foreign Languages of Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410076) Based on Systemic Functional Grammar, the current paper attempts to appreciate the beauty of the modern poem Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again from the perspective of discourse analysis. Very beautiful poem. However, if Cambridge is done for me, his glossy matte green silent leaf of transcurrent surface is yet in my property, and his clouds as well, untouchables in their ever-changing, forever. The punctuation marks are various. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
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