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[quote=SUMMERSNOW,270218]In ancient China, a lot of poets are hedonistic. They can't compose poems without becoming drunk. Li Bai , a talented poet in the Tang Dynasty, produced great works after he got drunk. His poem was full of hedonism. This English poem is similar to one of Li Bai's poem.  One line is: "You should enjoy drinking the wine to your heart content" What do you think of this poem and the poet?

You have to be always drunk.

That's all there is to it--it's the 
only way.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks 
your back and bends you to the earth,

you have to be continually drunk.
But on what?

Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes,on the steps of a palace

or the green grass of a ditch,
in the mournful solitude of your room,

you wake again, 
drunkenness already diminishing or gone,

ask the wind, the wave, 
the star, the bird, the clock,

everything that is flying, everything 
that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is 
singing, everything that is speaking. . .

ask what time it is and 
wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you:

"It is time to be drunk!

So as not to be the martyred slaves of time,be drunk, be
continually drunk!

On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."

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