Talk:Chunwang (poem)

A fact from Chunwang (poem) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Burton Raffel called Arthur Cooper's translation of a poem by Du Fu "exceedingly lame"?

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 20:56, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Burton Raffel called Arthur Cooper's translation of a poem by Du Fu "exceedingly lame"?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Shigeru Ohmori

Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Self-nominated at 18:25, 21 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Working on this one. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:48, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

GTG. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:04, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Slightly confusing bit

Article reads

... the verbs meaning "feel" and "hate" are paired together ...

However, those words don't appear in the English translation that we include.

Can we do anything to clarify this?

- 189.122.243.241 (talk) 00:40, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because it is after all a translation and many words can mean roughly the same thing (hence "verbs meaning"). That's as much as the source says anyway but if you're interested the words are 感 and 恨 KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 10:46, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]