Li Po (701-762 / Chu / Kazakhstan)
Poems by Li Po : 6 / 112
About Tu Fu
I met Tu Fu on a mountaintop
in August when the sun was hot.
Under the shade of his big straw hat
his face was sad--
in the years since we last parted,
he'd grown wan, exhausted.
Poor old Tu Fu, I thought then,
he must be agonizing over poetry again.
Li Po
tr. Hamil
Li Po
Submitted: Tuesday, December 31, 2002
Read poems about / on: august, poetry, sad, sun
Poems by Li Po : 6 / 112
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So where do I find his farewell poem?
i like both Li Po 'n Tu Fu.
They were contemporaries and
had run across eachother a few times.
Their poems were pure and out of their soul;
that makes them the classic poets
and i think the reason tu fu was *second* best poet was because of all the agonizing he goes through; tu fu's poetry is about war and politics, li po's about nature and wine - i think this gives li po an unfair advantage when it comes to beautiful poetry.
The greatest poet in China thinking fondly about the second greatest poet in China, what a poem!