His love for her is the one constant in everything I read about him. What I meant in my comment was that learning more about them both created a different set of feelings than those elicited by the poem. As I implied at the end of my comment, both sets of feelings are valid. But I think I preferred the set of feelings your beautiful piece brought forth.
The poem! Echoes what it would have been like to be there whoever you are in the procession. Each person would have felt the weight of that love and loss. Fine work you'e done in evoking the timbre of the force of life raised to snare death.
Sadness and joy, pain and pleasure, illusion and enlightenment, man and nature, loniless and love . . . Emotions and experiences all so aptly conveyed here. Thank you.
I made the mistake of reading all about Emperor Xuanzong in Wikipedia--epic womanizer, survivor and initiator of intrigues, curses, and a bloodbath of assassinations during his flourishing reign. Yang Guifei was his son's wife. After he'd taken her and provided his son with a new wife, he made Yang Guifei and her whole clan fabulously rich from his generosity, and equally powerful.
Although it's clear that he loved her dearly, and mourned her in the subsequent years, there seems to be much about their story that has been subsequently idealized by poets and artists. That said, it's a marvelous story no matter who tells it, or with what bias it is told.
His love for her is the one constant in everything I read about him. What I meant in my comment was that learning more about them both created a different set of feelings than those elicited by the poem. As I implied at the end of my comment, both sets of feelings are valid. But I think I preferred the set of feelings your beautiful piece brought forth.
What a great love story.
The poem! Echoes what it would have been like to be there whoever you are in the procession. Each person would have felt the weight of that love and loss. Fine work you'e done in evoking the timbre of the force of life raised to snare death.
I am inspired to read more history after this!
Sadness and joy, pain and pleasure, illusion and enlightenment, man and nature, loniless and love . . . Emotions and experiences all so aptly conveyed here. Thank you.
I made the mistake of reading all about Emperor Xuanzong in Wikipedia--epic womanizer, survivor and initiator of intrigues, curses, and a bloodbath of assassinations during his flourishing reign. Yang Guifei was his son's wife. After he'd taken her and provided his son with a new wife, he made Yang Guifei and her whole clan fabulously rich from his generosity, and equally powerful.
Although it's clear that he loved her dearly, and mourned her in the subsequent years, there seems to be much about their story that has been subsequently idealized by poets and artists. That said, it's a marvelous story no matter who tells it, or with what bias it is told.