Round 7: Tossup 19

Candles are snuffed out for this place in a poem whose speaker despairs how cupping this place leaves a message that cannot be sent. Changes to this place are compared to “sorrow, joy, separation and reunion” in a poem that was written while the poet was drinking and thinking about his brother. A question about this place opens that “water melody,” which was written in a style meant to be sung. In another poem, a woman stares at this place while waiting on the jade steps. In one poem, this place makes friends (10[1])with the speaker and his shadow while they sing and (10[1])dance (10[1])together. After looking at this place, the speaker bows his head (10[1])and thinks of his homeland in the poem “Quiet (10[1])Night Thoughts.” For 10 points, according to legend, Li Bai died trying to embrace the reflection of what place? ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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