ChatGPT's idiomatic translation of the poem: Yu Xin’s was a life of utter desola...

acchow · 2026-07-21T00:32:40

Opus:

No life ran more bleak and desolate than Yu Xin's —

yet in his twilight years, his verses stirred the rivers and the passes.

zahlman · 2026-07-21T00:18:36

  Yu Xin's past was exquisitely tragic
  Ages passed; now his works betray magic

dash2 · 2026-07-21T03:08:58

I think the feminine rhyme sounds unintentionally comic.

Eufrat · 2026-07-20T23:24:58

I guess that works, it is always difficult to capture the cultural and linguistic melancholy of such poetry.