A poem titled for performing this action “on a Spring Day” describes an “unrivaled” man with whom the speaker hopes to debate poetry and prose. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this action that titles a poem set “at the End of the Sky” in which the speaker asks “What time will the wild goose come?” and what “occupies the gentleman’s mind?”
ANSWER: thinking of Lǐ Bái [accept equivalents like remembering in place of “thinking”; accept Li Po or Li Bo or Lǐ Tàibái or Rihaku or Qīnglián Jūshì in place of “Lǐ Bái”; accept “Thinking of Lǐ Bái at the End of the Sky” or “Tiān mò huái Lǐ Bái”; accept “Thinking of Lǐ Bái on a Spring Day” or “Chūn rì yì Lǐ Bái”; prompt on thinking or huái or yì by asking “about what subject?”]
[10m] Both of those poems are by this friend of Lǐ Bái, who wrote of the “rumble and roll” of the title objects in the poem “Song of the Wagons.”
ANSWER: Dù Fǔ [or Tu Fu]
[10e] Both Lǐ Bái and Dù Fǔ were Táng Dynasty poets who wrote in this language.
ANSWER: Classical Chinese [or Literary Chinese; or zhōngwén; or hànyǔ]
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