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?
