Round 2: 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. (10[1])In one poem, this place makes friends with the speaker and his shadow while they sing and dance (10[2])together. After looking at this (10[1])place, the speaker bows his head and thinks (10[1])of his (10[1])homeland (10[1])in the poem “Quiet Night Thoughts.” For 10 points, according to legend, Li Bai died trying to embrace the reflection of what place? ■END■

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