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Su Yen's Poetry Notes

Edited by Su-Yen Hu, Illustrated by Su-Yen Hu

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""The Dear Su Yen Picture-Poetry Notebook Series"" provides introductions to a number of best-loved English poems and some that are not so well-known. Each poem is illustrated by an original interpretative drawing by Su Yen Hu, a modern designer from Taipei. Short explanations are provided by Dr Roy Preece, an English tutor who lives in Oxford and Su Yen provides imaginative interpretations. The combination of ideas and communication originated from an exchange of letters during one Christmas as told in the book Dear Su Yen, which gradually turned into an ambitious effort to make the traditional wisdom approachable in modern days. Readers can find out quickly that the notebook builds up different layers of understanding towards those poems. As a modern designer, Su Yen wrote down her direct impressions and drew colourful fairytale-like pictures to make them appeal vividly not only to the mind but also to the eyes. Roy, on the other hand, with his knowledge of English history and culture, weaves deeper thoughts and interesting ideas with the simplest words into his introductions for the unique student whose mind was engaged only with modern designs before. Like the modern designer, Su Yen, who appreciates the classical poems in her own imaginative way, the readers are encouraged to write down their own thoughts in the note-pages provided, using their own experiences and background to personalize the book and make it the most different and interesting book in the world for themselves. Book 2 explains how poetry can explore the themes of fate and death sympathetically and the myths and legends that the poets used to express their own emotions and philosophy. Illustrations are in black and white in keeping with the subject. The poems include Tennyson's ""The Lady of Shallot"", Swinburne s ""The Garden of Propserpine"" and a short selection from Fitzgerald's translation of the ""Rubiayat of Omar Khayam"". Sneyd Davies' poem ""A Journey to Tintern Abbey"" introduces the idea of pleasurable sadness or melancholy at the transience of all beauty.

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