Lu Ji's "Wenfu"

I have been reading The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry translated and collected by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping. So far it is quite nice. Recently, I read the selection of Lu Ji's Wenfu (translated by Barnstone and Ping as "The Art of Writing" but in Wikipedia as "On Literature").  According to Barnstone and Ping, a translator can easily write more lines commenting on the poetry than lines in the poem. I thought I'd share a couple of the sections from the book. This is from the section titled...