Dialogue between Chinese and English Classics
Introduction: What is Imagery?
Part I (Prof Joan Tang, James Campion)
Unit 1 Great Virtue is Like Water
1.1 Great Virtue is Like Water
Laozi，Dao De Jing
1.2 Time Passes Like Running Water.
Confucius，The Analects ;
Robert Frost, West-Running Brook
1.3 Symbol of Love
the Book of Songs，Cooing and Wooing
1.4 Symbol of Blocked Love
The Reed, MV《在水一方》
1.5 Symbol of Purifying Soul
Qu Yuan, Water Imagery in Chu Ci，Fisherman
T.S. Eliot, Water Imagery in The Waste Land
Unit 2 The Moon Speaks of My Mind
2.1 Legendry Tales of the Moon
The Book of Songs，the Moon Rises
2.2 Symbol of the Beauty
Ouyang Xiu, The Lantern Festival Night
William Wordsworth, Strange Fits of Passion have I Known
2.3 The Homesick Moon
Li Bai, Thoughts on the Tranquil Night ; Drinking Alone by Moonlight
Li Yu, Joy at Meeting
2.4 Symbol of Impermanence of Life
Su Shi, Prelude to Water Melody
Percy Shelley ,To the Moon
2.5 The Crazy Moon
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream
Unit3 Willows Being Fresh and Green
3.1 Gathering Fern from the Book of Songs
3.2 Symbol of Fertility and Renewal
He Zhizhang, The Willow
William Carlos Williams，Willow Poem
3.3 The Symbol of Mourning
Willow Imagery in Shakespeare's Play
3.4 Willow Imagery in Song Lyrics
Liu Yong, Bells Ringing in the Rain
Unit 4 The Good Rain Knows the Season
4.1 Happy Rain Moistens Silently
Du Fu, Happy Rain on a Spring Night
Emily Dickinson, Summer Shower
4.2 Sad Rain and Calmness Rain
Li Shangying, Written on a Rainy Night to My Wife in the North
Wang wei, Autumn Evening in the Mountains
4.3 Rain in Different Ages of Life
Jiang jie, Listening to the Rain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Rainy Day
Part II (Doctor Lin Xuewei, James Campion)
Unit 5 Becoming Butterfly
5.1 Illusory Dreams
Zhuangzi, On the Equality of Things
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
5.2 Dancing Butterflies
Du Fu, Enjoying Flowers Walking Alone on a Riverbank
William Williams, To the Butterfly
5.3 Tragedy of Love
The Story of Liang Zhu
John Luther Long, Madame Butterfly
Unit 6 Phoenixes in Flight
6.1The Cultural Origins
Phoenix in Chinese Literature
Phoenix in the Ancient West
6.2 Phoenix Seeking His Mate
Sima Xiangru's Phoenix Seeking His Mate
6.3 Phoenix Raising from the Ashes
William Shakespeare, Phoenix and Turtle
Unit 7 Cuckoo Crying Blood
7.1 Amorous Heart Pours in Cuckoo's Cry
Cuckoo Crying Blood
Li Shangyin, Jinse
7.2 Spring Birds
Lu You, Singing Cuckoo
William Wordsworth, To the Cuckoo
7.3 The Spirits of Flowers and Birds
Cao Xueqing, Elegy on Flower
Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
Part III. (Prof. Ruoqian Pu, James Campion)
Unit 8 Ezra Pound and Classical Chinese Poetry
8.1 Pound and Chinese Culture
8.2 Pound's Translations of Classical Chinese Poetry
Unit 9 Gary Snyder and Cold Mountain Poems
9.1 Gary Snyder and Cold Mountain Poetry
9.2 Snyder's Translation of Cold Mountain Poetry
9.3 Zen Buddhism and Snyder's Poetic Creation
Unit 10 Chinese American Poet Marilyn Chin and Classical Chinese Poetry
10.1 Introduction to Chinese American Poetry
10.2 Marilyn Chin and Her Poetry
10.3 A Comparative Study of Marilyn Chin and Cai Yan's Poems
