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Wine, Poetry and History: Du Mu's "Pouring Alone in the Prefectural Residence"

Wine, Poetry and History: Du Mu's "Pouring Alone in the Prefectural Residence" WINE, POETRY AND HISTORY: DU MU'S "POURING ALONE IN THE PREFECTURAL RESIDENCE" BY MICHAEL FISHLEN University of Oregon Du Mu's "Pouring Alone at the Prefectural Residence"' is notable for its full explication of the literary motif of pouring wine alone. This motif (duzhuo) suggests those times when a poet contemplates his exclusion from the community of scholars, from his family, and from the high office and institutional glory he covets. The usual cause for this isolation is some manner of career dislocation. Common then in the poems composed on such occasions are elements of biography and history. Also present is the larger motif of wine-drinking, with its relevant philosophical and politi- cal implications. "Pouring Alone at the Prefectural Residence" is interesting as well for the narrative technique it employs. The poem is built the- matically of segments of usually four, six or eight lines, which vary greatly in content from one to the next. Juxtaposed are styl- ized quotations, bare personal statements, historical anecdotes, he- roic description, snatches of biographical data, flashbacks both in personal and in historical time, and classic formulations of basic Chinese foreign and domestic policy tenets. Taken together the effect is like that of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Wine, Poetry and History: Du Mu's "Pouring Alone in the Prefectural Residence"

Fishlen, Michael
T'oung Pao , Volume 80 (4): 260 – Jan 1, 1994
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© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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WINE, POETRY AND HISTORY: DU MU'S "POURING ALONE IN THE PREFECTURAL RESIDENCE" BY MICHAEL FISHLEN University of Oregon Du Mu's "Pouring Alone at the Prefectural Residence"' is notable for its full explication of the literary motif of pouring wine alone. This motif (duzhuo) suggests those times when a poet contemplates his exclusion from the community of scholars, from his family, and from the high office and institutional glory he covets. The usual cause for this isolation is some manner of career dislocation. Common then in the poems composed on such occasions are elements of biography and history. Also present is the larger motif of wine-drinking, with its relevant philosophical and politi- cal implications. "Pouring Alone at the Prefectural Residence" is interesting as well for the narrative technique it employs. The poem is built the- matically of segments of usually four, six or eight lines, which vary greatly in content from one to the next. Juxtaposed are styl- ized quotations, bare personal statements, historical anecdotes, he- roic description, snatches of biographical data, flashbacks both in personal and in historical time, and classic formulations of basic Chinese foreign and domestic policy tenets. Taken together the effect is like that of

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