飲酒·其五饮酒·其五
Drinking Wine (V)
Librarian’s score9.3Claude · AI
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Su Shi argued that one verb, seeing rather than looking at the southern hill, holds the whole poem’s spirit; it crowns the poetry of the recluse.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
From a set of twenty poems that Tao, as his preface says, jotted down on long evenings after drinking alone, and then had an old friend copy out. Two lines here are among the most loved in Chinese: picking chrysanthemums by the eastern hedge, he sees, rather than looks for, the southern hill. The ending is frank about the limits of words, an odd thing for a poem to say and a true one.
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- Rights
Jin dynasty poem; the author died in 427.
Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026.
- Source
Wikisource
retrieved 11 October 2026 - Translation
English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-001013
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- Title
- 飲酒·其五
Drinking Wine (V) 饮酒·其五 - Author
- Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 (c. 365–427)
- Date
- Six Dynasties
early 5th century - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Classical Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text as given on Chinese Wikisource. Lines broken at the punctuation for reading; text unchanged.
- This copy
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