This poet described a "little boy we've spoiled all his life/face paler, whiter than snow" in tears, "dirty, grimy, feet with no socks." He observed the playful flight of various seagulls on a cold riverbank in one poem and i
This poet described a "little boy we've spoiled all his life/face paler, whiter than snow" in tears, "dirty, grimy, feet with no socks." He observed the playful flight of various seagulls on a cold riverbank in one poem and included the cuckoo's call for him to leave a location that he stumbled upon while "running at knifepoint to a farther distance" in another. He described scratching away so much of his gray hair that his hairpin is too heavy in "A Spring Scene in Wartime" and alluded to the myth of the weaver and her herdboy in "The Milky Way." This poet mentioned the dust gathered up by the horses and the title vehicles of several conscript archers in the poem "Song of the Wagons". He dedicated a number of his poems to his thatched hut and became the foremost author of l?shi. For 10 points, identify this Chinese poet, a one-time student of Li Po.
This poet described a "little boy we've spoiled all his life/face paler, whiter than snow" in tears, "dirty, grimy, feet with no socks."
Du Fu [or Zimei; or Tu Fu; or Du Shaoling; or Du Gongbu]