Poems Read Aloud
读 诗
船 中 活 计 只 诗 编
读 了 唐 诖 读 半 山。
不 是 老 夫 朝 不 食
半 山 绝 句 当 朝 餐。
Du Shi
Chuan zhong huo ji zhi shi bian
Du liao tang gua du ban shan.
Bu shi lao fu zhao bu shi
Ban shan jue ju dang zhao can.
Poems Read Aloud
In a boat, plan to read a single poem by Wang Anshi
Read aloud and tried in vain to understand his work.
This old man was so occupied he forgot to eat his daybreak breakfast
But Wang’s four-line poem so good I consumed him, and not the food.
Notes:
Wang Anshi: (1021-1086) Song Dynasty economist, politician and poet, famous for his reformist New Policies.