Sunset lonely city

Author: Wang Tieli
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Publishing Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book includes 56 poets from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Republic of China, with a total of 60 poems. The content can be broadly categorized into five major types: expressing emotions and reflecting on grievances, describing objects and landscapes, expressing familial love and mourning for the deceased, thinking of others and saying farewell, and praising history and clarifying ambitions. Given the of the poetic form of ci, there is inevitable overlap in the categorization. Each selected poem, in addition to "Notes," "Author Biography," "Intention of Composition," and "Appreciation," is marked with tonal patterns and rhyme positions below the characters. The author hopes that readers, while appreciating the literary beauty of the ci, will also fully notice the melodic beauty of the specific tune, thereby becoming more familiar with and mastering the deeper of the poem. The explanation of the standard and variant patterns of ci tunes in this text also stems from this line of thinking.