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Hockney, David - Li Shangyin - Untitled poem
Identifier
014380
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Li Shangyin (c. 813–858) was a Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, born in Henei (now Qinyang, Henan). He was much admired and "rediscovered" in the 20th century by the young Chinese writers for the imagist quality of his poems. The painting is David Hockney's
UNTITLED
lt’s so hard to be together, and so hard to part: a tender
east wind is powerless: the hundred blossoms crumble:
the heart-thread doesn’t end until the silkworm’s dead,
and tears don’t dry until the candle’s burnt into ash:
she grieves, seeing white hair in her morning mirror,
and chanting at night, she feels the chill of moonlight:
exquisite Paradise Mountain-it isn’t so very far away
and that azure bird can show us the way back anytime.
The source of the experience
Hockney, DavidConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Smoke inhalationSuppressions
Communing with natureLOVE
Reducing desires
Squash the big I am