Wang Wei, "Deer-Park Hermitage": "There seems to be no one on the empty mountain ... And yet I think I hear a voice." What mood do these lines create?

Wang Wei, "Deer-Park Hermitage": "Where sunlight, entering a grove, Shines back to me from the green moss." The speaker's tone is calm and observant. What mood do these images build?

Li Po, "In the Quiet Night": "Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight. Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home." The mood is lonely stillness. What is the speaker's tone?

Li Po opens "In the Quiet Night" by comparing the moonlight on his bed to frost: "Could there have been a frost already?" What does the frost comparison add that the plain word "light" would not?

Wang Wei writes, "There seems to be no one on the empty mountain." What does "empty" add that the neutral word "quiet" would not?

Wang Wei, "A Song at Wei-ch'eng", urges one more cup at a farewell: "West of Yang Gate there'll be no old friends." What mood do these parting lines create?

In Wang Wei's "In a Retreat among Bamboos" the speaker hums a song too softly for anyone to hear "Except my comrade, the bright moon." Calling the moon a comrade makes the solitude sound companionable.

Li Po, "Drinking Alone by Moonlight": "A cup of wine, under the flowering trees; I drink alone, for no friend is near." What mood do the flowering trees and the lone cup create together?

Li Po, "Drinking Alone by Moonlight": "Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon, For he, with my shadow, will make three men." The mood stays lonely. What is the speaker's tone here?

Li Po writes, "Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon." What does "beckon" add that the neutral verb "see" would not?

Li Po, "Self-Abandonment": "I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk, Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress." What mood do these lines create?

Li Po, "Self-Abandonment": "Drunken I rose and walked to the moonlit stream; The birds were gone, and men also few." The mood is deep solitude. What is the speaker's tone toward that solitude?

Wang Wei, "A Parting": "Friend, I have watched you down the mountain Till now in the dark I close my thatch door." What mood do these lines create?

Wang Wei ends "A Parting": "Grasses return again green in the spring, But O my Prince of Friends, do you?" What does this closing question add to the poem's mood?

Wang Wei, "An Autumn Evening in the Mountains": "After rain the empty mountain Stands autumnal in the evening, Moonlight in its groves of pine." What mood do these images build?

Wang Wei, "An Autumn Evening in the Mountains": "And what does it matter that springtime has gone, While you are here, O Prince of Friends?" The mood is cool and still. What is the speaker's tone?

Li Po, "A Farewell to Secretary Shu-yun": "since water still flows, though we cut it with our swords, And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine." The mood is restless sorrow. What is the speaker's tone?

Wang Wei, "A Message from My Lodge at Wang-ch'uan": "By my thatch door, leaning on my staff, I listen to cicadas in the evening wind." The mood is lonely stillness. What is the speaker's tone?

Li Po, "A Farewell to Meng Hao-jan on His Way to Yang-chou": "Your sail, a single shadow, becomes one with the blue sky, Till now I see only the river, on its way to heaven." What mood do these lines create?

Li Po calls his friend's departing sail "a single shadow." What does that phrase add that the neutral words "a small boat" would not?