a
reference to
Po Chu-i (772-846), a Chinese poet and
government official.
Po Chu-i wrote over 3,000 poems, most of which were addressed to friends or relatives, or written for his own amusement. His poems were expressed in simple,
clear language and it is said that he used to show them to an
old woman he knew and any
word she did not understand, he revised out of the poem.