The speaker stays out performing this action “at night on the Eastern Slope” until midnight in one of many poems by Su Shi that contributed to the Crow Terrace Poetry Trial. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this action performed “Alone under the Moon” in a Li Bai poem whose speaker describes “invit[ing] the bright moon” after “raising my cup.”
ANSWER: drinking wine [accept “Drinking Alone under the Moon”]
[10m] Su Shi wrote a poem titled for “A Tune Beyond” one of these places. A poem titled for one of these places opens by describing a girl picking flowers when “my hair was still cut straight across my forehead” in an adaptation by Ezra Pound.
ANSWER: rivers [accept “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”; accept “A Tune Beyond the River”]
[10h] Su Shi wrote “Dishevelled white hair flows in the wind” in a poem about experiencing this state. Pound wrote, “I send it a thousand miles” in a translation of Li Bai titled for a “Letter” from someone experiencing this state.
ANSWER: in exile [accept being in exile; accept “Exile’s Letter” or “An Impromptu Verse Written in Exile”]
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