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Li Po's corpus of work reveals the poet's unabashed joie du vivre and celebration of sensory pleasures, particularly the pleasure found in drink. His lifestyle parallels the content of his poems, too, as Li PO was known not for being an elite or erudite poet but an eccentric and a wanderer. His role at court became that of poet-fool, and as Stephen Owen points out, "people in power in China liked to keep a couple of these around. It was considered sort of nice to have one. They entertained you. They were supposed to be wild and free." Most of Li Po's work have a "wild and free" quality. Li Po poems do not seem to make a point or generate deep philosophical meaning as they do capture the pure pleasure of living in the moment and enjoying the human experience, especially an intoxicating one. Nature also plays a strong role in Li Po's poems, showing his Taoist predilections. Li Po's work conveys an element of transcendence, as if through the seemingly superficial act of drinking one perceives the true and pleasingly simple nature of reality and truth. The self-reflection taking place in "Drinking Alone with the Moon" and the revelry in "Bring in the Wine" serve similar functions in Li Po's worldview, in that they both provide the keys to understanding the simple pleasures in...
In "Drinking Alone with the Moon," the narrator relishes his solitude, generating companionship out of an interaction with the moon and his own shadow. "I raise my cup, invite the bright moon; / facing my shadow, together we make three," (lines 3-4). Far from being a lamentation on loneliness, "Drinking Alone with the Moon" becomes a celebration of solitude. The narrator "invites" the moon, too, which because of the light it emits, creates the speaker's shadow. "Together we make three," (line 4). Now, the speaker is not alone because he recognizes the value in self-reflection. The moon is literally a reflective body, so it makes sense that a person interested in self-reflection would choose both the moon and his own shadow as drinking companions. The moon symbolizes reflection as an act and phenomenon, and the shadow is the object of reflection. Moreover, the speaker is not bothered by his shadow-self; he is comfortable with the darker parts of his being just as he enjoys the night, replete with its curtain of stars in the Milky Way (line 14). He "sings" and "dances" with his companions, who move with him because they are his own reflections (lines 9-10). Thus, Li Po shows how it is possible to find joy in every moment.
The seeking and expressing of joy in intoxication is also a main motif in "Bring in the Wine," but in the latter, Li Po lauds the social and celebratory function of alcohol. Longer in verse and more elated and excited in style than "Drinking Alone with the…
Works Cited
Li Po. "Bring in the Wine." Retrieved online: http://www.shigeku.org/xlib/lingshidao/hanshi/libai.htm
Li Po. "Drinking Alone with the Moon." Retrieved online: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/at/libo/lb04.html
Owen, Stephen. "Great Tang Poets: Li Bo." Asian Topics, Columbia University. Retrieved online: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/at/libo/lb01.html
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