— Anonymous Li Po is a famous Chinese poet, who had written numerous romantic and emotional poems. I have read a few of his poems in elementary school, like “Quiet Night Thought”. “Drinking Alone in the Moonlight” is the longer version of the “Quiet Night Thought”. “Quiet Night Thought” is usually taught in the first […]
Middle Ages and Renaissance (455–1485CE)
A Great Work can be classified…
—Anonymous A Great Work can be classified as a living document. It is a piece of work that is able to remain relevant to all people, regardless of age or class, in any time period. The parables of the Scholar’s Guide, by Petrus Alfonsus, are considered to be Great Works of literature because of their […]
To be left with a sense of awe…
—Ana Bushi To be left with a sense of awe and wanting to know the full story, is for me an indicator of something great in measure. This is what I experienced after I was done with reading the assigned parts from The 1001 Nights and The Mahabharata, and this is why I would consider […]
Li Po and I
—Wenyi Luo Li Po’s Drinking Alone in the Moonlight is a great work. One of the qualities making for a great work is that the work is worth reading repeatedly hundreds of times in one’s life, and each time, it brings people different insights and thoughts. Furthermore, the sentences in it can accurately describe their […]
