Frozen skeletons

Du Fu 杜甫 the ancient poet in five characters laments the skeletons frozen on the street. Five characters prior, he recollected olfactory samples of excess wine and meat emanating from wealthy gates. That olfactory sense is open to interpretation: that could be neutral, aromatic, or foul.

By just ten characters the chilling contrast sets the moral compass for generations of young minds and hearts, who for the rest of their lives would shudder, feeling chillier than chilly right into the marrow at each encounter with the array of characters ordered this way: 朱门酒肉臭，路有冻死骨.

Du Fu leaves us with a frigid account of two decays: alongside rotting leftover food corpses decompose in stages: autolysis, bloat, active decay, advanced decay and skeletonization. Can contrasts be more eerie?