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Lee Wing-Sze

Yip Ka-ying

Age: 16

Top tunes: Canto-pop songs and Miriam Yeung's hits

A little. Most of the classical Chinese  poems I know  were learned at school.  I don't have a favourite poet, but Li Bai's Thinking Under the Moonlight is my favourite  poem.  When I read poems I  look at the meaning behind   the way ideas are expressed. But I prefer novels to poems.

Maggie Yip Tsz-ying

Age: 18

Top tunes: Kelly Chen's Stylish Index

Not much. Classical Chinese poetry is too boring and complicated  for me. I only read poems  during lessons. Sometimes I  hear poems when they are featured in  epic dramas on TV.  The poems I remember best are those with a  good rhythm and are easy to read. When I was in secondary school,  I had to recite poems. This  made me less interested  in poetry.

Michael Shum Pui-yin

Age: 17

Top tunes: Eason Chan's hits

I have no interest in classical Chinese poetry. It's too boring. I can't understand the poems and I don't want to  memorise them. I won't read them  unless I am told to. I prefer reading comics which are much more interesting.  Their  content is more  relevant to my life than poetry.

MC Lam Chi-kuen

Age: 18

Top tunes: punk rock and Green Day's American Idiot

I'm okay with classical Chinese poetry. It is not really relevant to life. One of my favourite poems is by Li Bai. Although it is a really long poem, I can recite it. However, I don't really understand what it is  about.  I wouldn't read poetry on my own.  Poems are in general boring and I just don't understand what they're trying to say.

Mark Chun King-tsui

Age: 17

Top tunes: rock music

No. I don't know why I don't like it. Maybe because Chinese poems are too corny. I will only read  poems at school, but not for leisure as they're far too boring. I would rather read a Japanese dictionary as I'm learning Japanese and want to expand my vocabulary.



Are you interested in classical Chinese poetry?