孟郊诗
Poems of Meng Jiao
Index
织妇辞
Weaving Woman Lyric
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夫是田中郎 妾是田中女 当年嫁得君 为君秉机杼 |
You are a farmer's boy. And I am a father's girl. When they married me off to that boy, I took up weaving for you. |
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筋力日已疲 不息窗下机 如何织纨素 自著蓝缕衣 |
I wake up already aching, Never rest at the window-side loom. How can these threads be so white When my own clothes are shabby and blue? |
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官家榜村路 更索栽桑树 |
And the edict now out on the roadside, Demands we plant more mulberries, too. |
-- 孟郊
废话
Meng Jiao is a bit like Bai Juyi here. But more subtle. His criticism in the last two lines is not elaborated. And it is not self-referential. Simply reporting a matter of fact suffices for critique here. The 辞 in the title is the kind of lyric poetry that is built on popular songs. It's hard to tell whether Meng Jiao uses these indicators, like 辞, 吟, 曲, and so forth, in a standard way or as his own categories. I think often they are the latter which he uses to sort out his thoughts on what poetry can and should do.