Li Po, 'In the Quiet Night': 'So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed / Could there have been a frost already? ... Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.' Where is the speaker as he says this?

Li Po, 'In the Quiet Night': 'Could there have been a frost already?' Which deictic relationship does the word 'already' show?

Li Po, 'A Farewell to Meng Hao-jan on His Way to Yang-chou': 'You have left me behind, old friend, at the Yellow Crane Terrace, / On your way to visit Yang-chou in the misty month of flowers.' Where is the speaker?

Li Po, 'Through the Yang-tsze Gorges': 'Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me / To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.' Where does 'behind me' point?

Li Po, 'A Farewell to a Friend': 'With a blue line of mountains north of the wall, / And east of the city a white curve of water, / Here you must leave me and drift away.' Where is 'here'?

Li Po, 'A Farewell to a Friend': 'I shall think of you in a floating cloud; / So in the sunset think of me.' If the departing friend spoke these same two lines, who would 'you' name?

Li Po, 'Thoughts of Old Time from a Night-Mooring under Mount Niu-chu': 'As I watch from my deck the autumn moon ... Tomorrow I shall hoist my sail.' When will the speaker sail?

Li Po, 'Drinking Alone with the Moon': 'I drank alone. There was no one with me / Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon / To bring me my shadow and make us three.' Who are the three?

Li Po, 'Self-Abandonment', translated by Arthur Waley: 'I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk ... Drunken I rose and walked to the moonlit stream; / The birds were gone, and men also few.' When were the birds gone?

Li Po, 'In Spring': 'Your grasses up north are as blue as jade, / Our mulberries here curve green-threaded branches.' Where does 'here' point?

Li Po, 'In Spring': 'And at last you think of returning home ... O breeze of the spring, since I dare not know you, / Why part the silk curtains by my bed?' In the last two lines, who does 'you' name?

Wang Wei, 'Deer-Park Hermitage': 'There seems to be no one on the empty mountain ... And yet I think I hear a voice, / Where sunlight, entering a grove, / Shines back to me from the green moss.' Where is the speaker?

Wang Wei, 'My Retreat at Mount Chung-nan': 'My heart in middle age found the Way, / And I came to dwell at the foot of this mountain.' What does 'this mountain' point to?

Wang Wei, 'A Parting': 'Friend, I have watched you down the mountain / Till now in the dark I close my thatch door.' Where is the speaker at the end of these lines?

Wang Wei, 'A Parting': 'Grasses return again green in the spring, / But O my Prince of Friends, do you?' What question do the words 'do you' stand for?

Wang Wei, 'On the Mountain Holiday: Thinking of My Brothers in Shan-tung': 'All alone in a foreign land, / I am twice as homesick on this day / When brothers carry dogwood up the mountain.' When is 'this day'?

Wang Wei, 'Bound Home to Mount Sung': 'Far away, beside Mount Sung, / I shall close my door and be at peace.' Which deictic relationship does 'Far away' show?

Wang Wei, 'A Song at Wei-cheng': 'A morning-rain has settled the dust in Wei-cheng ... Wait till we empty one more cup / West of Yang Gate there'll be no old friends.' Who does 'we' include?

Wang Wei, 'A Song at Wei-cheng': 'West of Yang Gate there'll be no old friends.' If the traveler spoke this line after arriving in that place, how would his place reference change?

Wang Wei, 'A Message from My Lodge at Wang-chuan': 'The mountains are cold and blue now / And the autumn waters have run all day ... I listen to cicadas in the evening wind.' When is 'now'?