This six-section article discusses one of the types of rhapsodic literature: yung-wu fu, the poetic description of a particular object. It will cover this type of poetry's prismatic modes of description, the appropriate approach to comprehending it, and its burdensome tradition of preaching morals. In this context, four selected works will be interpreted to reveal either their place in the development of yung-wu fu or the brilliance they exhibit on their own. A table of extant Han Dynasty yung-wu fu is appended at the end of this paper.