Friday, June 19, 2009

乾坤日夜浮 消遙不計年

乾坤日夜浮 消遙不計年

日月遞參差 ( 阮籍)
乾坤日夜浮 (杜甫)
往來成古今 (孟浩然)
消遙不計年 (李白)

How did the ancient poets feel or think about the “heaven and earth”
or “time and life” ?

阮籍 was a sky observer.
杜甫 watched them through the Great Lake and River.
孟浩然 thought them from a historical point of view.
And, obviously, 李白 didn’t care about them, as long as he
had access to his favorite “美酒”:

對酒不覺瞑
落花盈我衣
醉起步溪月
鳥還人亦稀

Yeh Tze

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