Love and the Expression of Love

Author: Li Yeping
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Love is the second life of a person; to speak of love is to write about our life. These love poems are very beautiful, mostly classic and outstanding works from ancient and modern China and the world. You can give them to your lover, or you can slowly dream and savor them alone. This book is different from all previous individual commentaries on love poems; it connects love poems from different eras in history or with the same emotions, situations, or perceptions, and interprets them in parallel, exploring their similar aesthetic qualities and distinct expressive techniques. It organizes the course of love's life as it changes with the times, showing its myriad forms, thus revealing the mysteries and essence of eternal love. Traversing the river of time in love, you will find solace for your soul and a transcendence of your emotions. Now, open this book gently. Here, you will clearly see and truly feel the brightness and obscurity of love, its clamor and depth, its confidence and doubt, its harmony and tension. Such sincere and profound life experiences flow from the poet's heart, from the lines between the poems, and from the interpreter's pen, quietly pouring into the veins of every one of us, nourishing our hearts, and enriching our lives. Here, you will find love full of classical charm, as well as passion brimming with modern. You can appreciate the passionate and lingering emotions of the Book of Songs, the hidden anxieties of Li Shangyin, the refinement and gentleness of Ouyang Xiu, the clarity and elegance of Su Dongpo, the novelty and softness of Qin Guan, the melancholic and moving emotions of Liu Yong, the exquisite and alluring style of Wen Tingyun, the tenderness and subtlety of Li Qingzhao, as well as the deep and sincere emotions of Xu Zhimo, the ethereal clarity of Chen Mengjia, the delicate beauty of Zhu Xiang, the refined sorrow of Dai Wangshu, the profound and severe emotions of Bei Dao, the resilience and persistence of Shu Ting, the straightforward and spirited style of Lin Zi, and the clarity and determination of Xi Murong. All these emotions are immersed in the myriad forms of life. Here, you will find the sweetness and shyness, and the fluttering hearts of first love; the passion and vows of deep love; the euphoria and joy of being lost in love; the helplessness and sorrow of loving without love; the tears and reluctance of parting; the longing and yearning after separation; the grief and regret of losing true love; the anguish and lifelong remembrance of losing a loved one; the realistic scenes and concrete details of the process of love; and the spiritual questions about the true essence of love. In this myriad of life, there are countless flavors of love.