What are the names of the 3 emperors of Japan between
1868
and
1989?
What four functions or roles did traditional Chinese
poetry
serve?
What are tanka? What are haiku?
754:
Who was Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976)? What did he
contribute
to the
Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1949? (See Posters )
Wang Wei (17th C.) "Seeking a Mooring" 757:
Describe the language used in this poem.
Explain the title: Who is seeking a mooring?
Why?
What traditional poetic function or roles does this poem
best
exemplify?
Bei Dau (1949- ) "Declaration" 760:
What is this poem about?
Explain: "Out of starlike bullet holes / A bloody
dawn
is
flowing"
(13-14). Also, what literary techniques are being
employed here?
Does this poem fit the requirements established during
the
People's
Congress? Explain.
Other Writers to Consider:
Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) "Tune: 'Spring in [Princess] Ch'in's Garden" 759:
What is this poem about?
Explain: "A sunny day is best/ for watching the red
against the
white" (11-12).
Does this poem fit the requirements established during
the
People's
Congress? Explain.
Takamura Kotaro (1883-1956) "Lemon Elegy" 766:
To whom is this poem addressed?
Explain the imagery used in the final two lines.
Why
does
the
speaker put a "cool fresh piece of lemon" by the photograph?
Suju Takano (1893-?) "The Girl Cutting Reeds" 767:
Explain this poem. What exactly is being described?
What is the speaker's attitude to what is being
described?
Sir Rabindranath (Thakur) Tagore (1861-1941) "The Editor"
Explain the relationship between Probha and her father.
777:
What literary technique is demonstrated by this
sentence:
"Alas,
no one took into serious consideration that I was engaged in
writing a
screaming farce" (777)?
Explain: "For things that are solemn offer more
surface
for ridicule
than things that are truly ridiculous" (777).
