唐代
唐(
779 AD～
843 AD)
| poetry comment： | 《二南密旨》
| | Poetry： | 《A Note Left for an Absent Ecluse》 《interest and charm of antique taste》 《Hope Mountain》 《north shrine dedicated to General Yue Fei (1103-1141), hero of the Song Dynasty》 《朝饥》 《cry Lu Quan》 《Fencer A sword for the above》 《slogan》 《Send away》 《Fast in》 More poems... |
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Jia Dao (賈島, 779-843) was a Chinese poet born in Hebei. After a period as a Buddhist monk, he went to Chang'an. He became one of Han Yu's disciples, but failed the jinshi exam several times. He wrote both discursive gushi and lyric jintishi. His works were criticised as "thin" by Su Shi, and some other commentators have considered them limited and artificial.
According to Dr. James J.Y. Liu (1926 – 1986), a professor of Chinese and comparative literature, Jia’s poem The Swordsman “seems...to sum up the spirit of [Chinese knight errant] in four lines.” The Swordsman is as follows:
For ten years I have been polishing this sword;
It’s frosty edge has never been put to the test.
Now I am holding it and showing it to you, sir:
Is there anyone suffering from injustice?