Ming Aretê | Michael | Activity https://mingarete.com/members/mpratt99972feb4810/activity/ Activity feed for Michael. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:33:38 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.8 en-US 30 hourly 2 7220af7d20bac20f7d2aee324d7808bb Michael replied to the discussion Idea about rhythm for translating classical poems in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/idea-about-rhythm-for-translating-classical-poems/#post-15871 Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:52:10 +0000 Interesting post, Phil. I agree that it is worth trying to convey something of the rhythm of the original Chinese texts when translating shi poems, and that doing so entails recognizing that the verses in these poems are divided into hemistichs. I have never understood why David Hinton introduces wild enjambments into his versions. (Then again,… Read more

]]> 0 b720d04d55207426318447325ae41505 Michael and josef-ho are now connected https://mingarete.com/activity/p/214/ Sun, 01 Nov 2020 06:40:20 +0000 0 f84296f34e805f1a113ec1b418a3a54e Michael started the discussion Chinese Poetry in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/chinese-poetry/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:12:27 +0000 This forum focuses on Chinese poetry, from the Book of Poetry (诗经), through the Tang golden age, and right up to modern poetry in the 21st century.

Are you looking for recommendations on how to get started with the classics? Would you like to branch out beyond the poems in textbooks and read something more unusual? Or do you have questions to ask… Read more

]]> 0 75633c1a9d22744a9fb155a5c41e4c18 Michael replied to the discussion in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/about-this-forum-please-read/#post-9393 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 03:46:09 +0000 ¡Hola!

]]> 0 33f59ddb3f3c12f39df302b95b175d62 Michael started the discussion About this forum (please read) in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/about-this-forum-please-read-4/ Sun, 04 Oct 2020 04:15:25 +0000 This forum focuses on American poetry (i.e., poetry written in English within the territory of the modern United States), from its earliest stirrings to the present day.Are you looking for recommendations as to where to start your study of American poetry or about what you might want to read next? Are there any texts or authors you’d like to s… Read more

]]> 0 ab9506d267f86d4af6de44a8cc3f1041 Michael started the discussion About this forum (please read) in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/about-this-forum-please-read-3/ Sun, 04 Oct 2020 04:08:42 +0000 This forum focuses on poetry in Spanish, from its earliest manifestations (e.g., the jarchas and the Poema de mío Cid) to the present day.Are you looking for recommendations as to where to start your study of Spanish-language poetry or about what you should read next? Are there any poems or authors you’d like to share or discuss with others? Is th… Read more

]]> 0 108ad89ec91fe2d6c6c1e5a061034ae2 Michael started the discussion About this forum (please read) in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/about-this-forum-please-read-2/ Sun, 04 Oct 2020 04:06:12 +0000 This forum focuses on the rich tradition of poetry written in English within the territories of the present-day United Kingdom and Ireland, from the fourteenth-century—the heyday of Langland, Chaucer, and the Pearl poet–to the present.

Are you looking for recommendations as to where to start your study of the poetry of the British Isles? Are t… Read more

]]> 0 cf2c9d70d7655cdc9a8253260bb9b42b Michael started the discussion Wang Wei: "Sending off Yuan Er on His Mission to Anxi" 送元二使安西 in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/wang-wei-sending-off-yuan-er-on-his-mission-to-anxi-%e9%80%81%e5%85%83%e4%ba%8c%e4%bd%bf%e5%ae%89%e8%a5%bf/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 08:47:11 +0000 Occasional poems on the subject of parting are a well-known subgenre of classical Chinese verse. In this famous quatrain, Wang Wei commemorates a friend’s departure on an official mission to the distant (and culturally alien) oasis cities of the Tarim Basin.

Feel free to post here any questions, observations, or feedback that might have occurred… Read more

]]> 0 789ff0be390499a4896b9fb3f9c9828e Michael started the discussion Li Bai: “Thoughts on a Quiet Night” 静夜思 in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/li-bai-thoughts-on-a-quiet-night-%e9%9d%99%e5%a4%9c%e6%80%9d/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 08:40:09 +0000 Every Chinese child can recite this limpid, effortlessly memorable quatrain by the eighth-century prodigy Li Bai, one of the supreme masters of Chinese classical poetry. Feel free to post here any questions, observations, or feedback that might have occurred to you as you took our brief course on the poem. Whether or not you’ve seen the video, w… Read more

]]> 0 4cffc09906fe04dc51d69080cb4dcb70 Michael started the discussion John Keats: "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket" in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/john-keats-on-the-grasshopper-and-the-cricket/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 08:22:25 +0000 This sonnet, composed in fifteen minutes in a competition with a fellow poet, provided one of the earliest indications that Keats’ talent was equal to his ambition. From its resonant opening (“The poetry of earth is never dead”) to the lovely closing verses, ”On the Grasshopper and the Cricket” has that feeling of inevitability that one associate… Read more

]]> 0 19997fd179a8ec8c54bb4ce2aba5eba1 Michael started the discussion Whitman: "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/whitman-when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:33:00 +0000 First published in the Civil War collection Drum-Taps (1865), “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” is one of Whitman’s best-known lyrics. Feel free to post here any questions, observations, or feedback that might have occurred to you as you took our brief course on the poem. Whether or not you’ve seen the video, we’re interested in hearing you… Read more

]]> 0 81c7dfa3ebcc0bcf37acb0ab4578b5c3 Michael started the discussion Poetry in Spanish in the forum Poetry & Literature https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/poetry-in-spanish/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 04:49:25 +0000 This forum focuses on poetry in Spanish, from its earliest manifestations (e.g., the jarchas and the Poema de mío Cid) to the present day. Are you looking for recommendations as to where to start your study of Spanish-language poetry or about what you might want to read next? Are there any poems or authors you’d like to share or discuss with ot… Read more

]]> 0 44fbd6e1ed23b4eb1532606a73869137 Michael posted a new activity comment https://mingarete.com/activity/p/153/#acomment-160 Sat, 03 Oct 2020 03:46:35 +0000 That’s one mean-looking dog? But after all, at this point what does it even matter?

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I like dogs

]]> d97d89ab97b95a6c73b33f13928dd9b6 Michael posted a new activity comment https://mingarete.com/activity/p/153/#acomment-158 Sat, 03 Oct 2020 03:44:53 +0000 I ask for Xiao Yi, and THIS is what you send me?

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I like dogs

]]> db92537d42d5597926cb0aef346b7de8 Michael posted a new activity comment https://mingarete.com/activity/p/153/#acomment-155 Sat, 03 Oct 2020 03:40:47 +0000 This is just a test, though you should probably take a look anyway:

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I like dogs

]]> e91b8e39596e7d069d12990fb346a700 Michael posted a new activity comment https://mingarete.com/activity/p/153/#acomment-154 Sat, 03 Oct 2020 03:39:02 +0000 I like dogs, too!

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I like dogs

]]> 5ce6436b756db58f7a02193cb5340123 Michael started the discussion Four Quatrains (No. 3) 绝句四首（其三） in the forum https://mingarete.com/forums/discussion/four-quatrains-no-3-%e7%bb%9d%e5%8f%a5%e5%9b%9b%e9%a6%96%ef%bc%88%e5%85%b6%e4%b8%89%ef%bc%89/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:32:00 +0000 This short poem has long been one of my favorites. Please feel free to share your thoughts and questions about it, about what I’ve said about it in the video, and about the translation. And if you have a translation of your own, please feel free to share it!

]]> 0 e893aefa774b6429891272980a456362 Michael changed their photo https://mingarete.com/activity/p/150/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:07:52 +0000 0 d598a29825a8caa86cf7f3eac65a087a Michael changed their photo https://mingarete.com/activity/p/101/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:19:52 +0000 0 153be0134175dbfb9332749890bfccad Michael updated their profile https://mingarete.com/activity/p/79/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:21:44 +0000 0 fd5d5639e5d3f756dc09b4676c148f13 Michael posted a new post, A Humane Witness: The Journal of Mihail Sebastian https://mingarete.com/?p=1752 Tue, 05 May 2020 05:55:46 +0000 One of the joys of the reading life is meeting a new friend who also knows—and loves—a book that has deeply moved you. Shared enthusiasm creates an instant bond. However, the libraries are full of unj… Read more

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