Things To Consider:

• History
• Imagery & Language
• Japanese Literature Resources 
• Chinese Literature Resources 
• Indian Literaure Resources 
• Reading Poetry Site 

• 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?

• Who was Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976)?  What did he contribute to the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1949? (See Posters )

• 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?

• 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.

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.

• 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?

• Explain this poem.  What exactly is being described?
• What is the speaker's attitude to what is being described?

• Explain the relationship between Probha and her father.

• 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).

• Explain the final sentence.