Bei Dao: Notes City Sun / The Answer / Declaration

A net

How is 'Living' described in Notes from the City of the Sun?

A shimmering rainbow

How is the 'Girl' described in Notes from the City of the Sun?

Unobstructed

How is the sky described at the end of The Answer?

The still horizon

In Declaration, what 'divides the ranks of the living and the dead'?

A flock of sheep

In Notes from the City of the Sun, what 'spills out of a green ditch'?

The railing

In Notes from the City of the Sun, what does the child strike 'at random'?

The moon

In Notes from the City of the Sun, what is 'torn into gleaming grains of wheat'?

A solitary oar

In Notes from the City of the Sun, what is drowned by 'red waves'?

Bronze

In Notes from the City of the Sun, what is the shield made out of in the section entitled 'Motherland'?

The shepherd boy

In Notes from the City of the Sun, who 'plays his monotonous pipe'?

Paper, rope a shadow

In The Answer, what did the speaker bring with him 'into this world'?

Debasement

In The Answer, what is 'the password of the base'?

Life / The sun has risen too

What are first two lines of Notes from the City of the Sun?

stars

What are the bullet holes compared to at the end of Declaration?

blood-red

What colour is the dawn that will 'flow' from the bullet holes at the end of Declaration?

The 'shadows of the dead'

What covers 'the gilded sky' in The Answer?

A man

What does the speaker of Declaration say that he wants to be?

I - do - not - believe!

What does the speaker of The Answer tell the word?

A pen

What has the speaker of Declaration left for his mother?

Perhaps the final hour is come

What is the first line of Declaration?

They are the watchful eyes of future generations

What is the last line of The Answer?

Scintillating

What is the missing word (from Notes from the City of the Sun)? 'Art / A million _______________ suns'.

Fluttering

What is the missing word from Notes From the City of the Sun? 'Torn scraps of paper / ______________

Revenge

What is the missing word from stanza five of The Answer: 'I don't believe that death has no ____________'

Ice

What is the missing word from stanza two of The Answer? 'The __________ Age is over now.

Kneel

What will the speaker of Declaration refuse to do?

Yu Luoke

Who is the poem Declaration dedicated to?