Create a 10 page essay paper that discusses Classical Chinese Poetry.Download file to see previous pages... These pieces of art vary in length and styles because they are drawn from all the ranks of C

Create a 10 page essay paper that discusses Classical Chinese Poetry.

These pieces of art vary in length and styles because they are drawn from all the ranks of Chinese poetry. Translated to English, Shih Ching, which is the title of the collection, is The Book of Songs. The commentator of the collection, Mao, gave these poems distinctive numbers which are still being used to date to identify the different poems contained in that classical collection. These poems were probably collected over a stretch of several centuries with most of them coming from the Zhou period in the 600 BCE. The worth of this classical collection is identified by its use in one of the Confucian Classics (Mair, 102).

One of the outstanding traits of classical poetry in the Chinese community is that the poems are usually simple with surface meaning. This is to help the audience understand the message contained in these poems without having to go through complicated analysis or getting lost by the words used. This makes the Chinese literature stand out of the rest since most poets from the western world and Europe like using complicated literature.

The culture that was created by Shakespeare and the Romantic poets amongst others had introduced a tendency amongst the audience that poems do not depict any surface meaning or are probably a creation of genius men. This is in contrast with the Chinese poems which are inspired by the anonymity of Sih Ching and have created the impression that poems are created by common human beings for the other common people to understand. This has eliminated the complexity of hidden meanings and difficulty faced by other poem readers. Another outstanding feature of these classics is the order in which the lines are placed.