Shu Ting

thumb|Instead of being on display on the cliff for a thousand yearsI'd rather have a hearty cry on my lover's shoulder for a single night. Shu Ting (Chinese: 舒婷; pinyin: Shū Tíng; born 1952) is the pen name of Gong Peiyu (Chinese: 龚佩瑜; pinyin: Gōng Pèiyú), a Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets. Quotes thumb|I would be a kapok tree by your sideStanding with you—both of us shaped like trees. thumb|You have your bronze boughs and iron trunkLike knives and swords thumb|I have my red flowersLike heavy sighs,Also like heroic torches. thumb|We share cold waves, storms and thunderbolts;Together we savor fog, haze and rainbows.We seem to always live apart,But actually depend upon each other forever. If I love you—I never behave like a climbing trumpet vineUsing your high branches to show myself off;If I love you—I never mimic infatuated little birdsRepeating monotonous songs into the shadows,Nor do I look at all like a wellspringSending out its cooling consolation all year round,Or just another perilous cragAugmenting your height, setting off your prestige.Nor like the sunlightOr even spring rain.No, these are not enough.I would be a kapok tree by your sideStanding with you—both of us shaped like trees.Our roots hold hands underground,Our leaves touch in the clouds.As a gust of wind passes byWe salute each otherAnd not a soulUnderstands our language.You have your bronze boughs and iron trunkLike knives and swords,Also like halberds;I have my red flowersLike heavy sighs,Also like heroic torches.We share cold waves, storms and thunderbolts;Together we savor fog, haze and rainbows.We seem to always live apart,But actually depend upon each other forever.This has to be called extraordinary love.Faith resides in it:Love—I love not only your sublime bodyBut the space you occupy,The land beneath your feet. "To the Oak Tree" [致橡树, Zhi xiangshu] (27 March 1977), in The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution, ed. Edward Morin, trans. Fang Dai and Dennis Ding (University of Hawaii Press, 1990), 978-0824813208, pp. 102–103. A colorful hanging chart with no lines.A pure algebra problem with no solution. "Missing You" (1978), in Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry, ed. Tony Barnstone (Wesleyan University Press, 1993), p. 61 Remember the storm, the lighthouseThat brought us togetherAnother storm, a different lightDrove us asunder againEven though morning or eveningSky and ocean stand between usYou are always on my voyageI am always in your sight "Two-Masted Ship" (27 August 1979), in The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution, ed. Edward Morin (University of Hawaii Press, 1990), p. 101 与其在悬崖上展览千年不如在爱人肩头痛哭一晚 Instead of being on display on the cliff for a thousand yearsI'd rather have a hearty cry on my lover's shoulder for a single night. "Goddess Peak" [神女峰, Shennü feng], in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume II: From 1375 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 649 Quotes about Shu Ting Her voice is distinctly feminine, but not feminist. In the decade after the Cultural Revolution, when China was struggling to recover from ten years of trauma, Shu Ting's gentle poetic voice and her faith in the human spirit drew a remarkably large following. Eva Hung, Shu Ting: Selected Poems (Renditions, 1994), p. 8, as quoted in Twentieth-Century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology (Routledge, 2015) by Julia C. Lin, p. 59. External links Category:Living people Category:Misty poets