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OG_BMEyesterday at 10:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

ChatGPT's idiomatic translation of the poem:

Yu Xin’s was a life of utter desolation; in old age, his poems and rhapsodies stirred the riverlands.


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acchowtoday at 12:32 AM

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.

zahlmantoday at 12:18 AM

  Yu Xin's past was exquisitely tragic
  Ages passed; now his works betray magic
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Eufratyesterday at 11:24 PM

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