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While we're at it, here's Mao's: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/poems/index.htm https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/se

• runeblaze 7y ago
  My thought when I was reading one of these in class (in China) was that Cao Cao's poetry seemed quite a bit better. It was quite a dissonance. Mao's poetry seemed (even to the fairly uneducated me) less artistic than those by Li Bai or Guo Moruo, but they were reasonably well-crafted. The classical form did not help either. It was as if seeing Roosevelt writing poetry in the style of Ovid.
  • bigpumpkin 7y ago
    "Though the Tortoise Lives Long Though the tortoise blessed with magic powers lives long, Its days have their allotted span; Though winged serpents ride high on the mist, They turn to dust and ashes at the last; An old war-horse may be stabled, Yet still it longs to gallop a thousand li; And a noble-hearted man though advanced in years Never abandons his proud aspirations. Man's span of life, whether long or short, Depends not on Heaven alone; One who eats well and keeps cheerful Can live to a great old age. And so, with joy in my heart, I hum this song."
• cafard 7y ago
  I know nothing of Chinese literature, but my impression from those who do was that Mao wasn't much of a poet.