Question
In a poem lamenting this event, the dreaming speaker sees its subject’s face in the rafters of his room and asks him, “How could you have wings to fly with?” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this event. The speaker compares parting with his friend So-Kin of Rakuho to “flowers falling at spring’s end” in a poem titled in reference to this event.
ANSWER: the exile of Li Bai [or the banishment of Li Bai or equivalents; accept Li Po or Li Bo or Taibai in place of “Li Bai”; prompt on exile or banishment or “Exile’s Letter” with “of whom?”; reject “Li Bai’s death” or similar]
[10m] Du Fu’s poetry is credited as “a single clear voice” about Li Bai’s exile in The Banished Immortal, this author’s biography of Li Bai. In a novel by this Misty Poet, Lin Kong spends eighteen years trying to divorce his wife Shuyu.
ANSWER: Ha Jin [or Jin Xuefei] (The novel is Waiting.)
[10e] Ha Jin mentions one scholar’s claim that Li Bai died trying to reach this object by riding a whale. A popular story claims Li Bai died trying to embrace this object’s reflection.
ANSWER: the moon [or yuèliang]
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