1. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"By
Tu Fu
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Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"

2. Most Significant Poetic Devices/ Literary Terms
Imagery
Diction
Tone
Theme
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3. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
“The stream swirls” (1)
Stream
Nature imagery
Swirls
Uncontrollable
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4. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
“The wind moans” (1)
Wind
Nature Imagery
Moans
Painful
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5. “Gray rats scurry over/ Broken tiles” (2-3)
Dirty
desertion
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6. “Gray rats scurry over/ Broken tiles” (2-3)
Quick
Isolation
Ownership
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7. “Gray rats scurry over/ Broken tiles” (2-3)
Destruction
isolation
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8. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
“What prince, long ago,/ Built this palace, standing in/ Ruins beside the cliffs?” (3-5)
What prince, long ago
Nameless
Victim of death
Fame/memory is lost
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9. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
“What prince, long ago,/ Built this palace, standing in/ Ruins beside the cliffs?” (3-5)
Palace
Place of riches/power
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10. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
“What prince, long ago,/ Built this palace, standing in/ Ruins beside the cliffs?” (3-5)
Ruins
Destruction
Decay
Desertion
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11. “There are/ Green ghost fires in the black rooms” (5-6)
Death
Memories
Haunting
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12. “There are/ Green ghost fires in the black rooms” (5-6)
Darkness
Emptiness
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13. “The shattered pavements are all/ Washed away” (7-8)
Destruction
Ruins
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14. “The shattered pavements are all/ Washed away” (7-8)
Destruction
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15. “Ten thousand organ/ Pipes whistle and roar” (8-9)
Power
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16. “Ten thousand organ/ Pipes whistle and roar” (8-9)
The pipes play, but we know the palace is empty
Played by the wind
Eerie
Haunted
Emptiness
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17. “The storm/ Scatters the red autumn leaves” (9-10)
Power of nature
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18. “The storm/ Scatters the red autumn leaves” (9-10)
Brushes away without much effort
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19. “The storm/ Scatters the red autumn leaves” (9-10)
Death imagery
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20. “His dancing girls are yellow dust” (11)
Suggests his position of power
Yellow dust
Death imagery
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21. “Their painted cheeks have crumbled/ Away” (12-13)
Beauty
Crumbled away
Death imagery
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22. “His gold chariots/ And courtiers are gone” (13-14)
Possessions and admirers are gone
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23. “Only/ A stone horse is left of his/ Glory” (14-16)
singularly
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24. “Only/ A stone horse is left of his/ Glory” (14-16)
Inanimate object functions as the symbol of his reign
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25. “Only/ A stone horse is left of his/ Glory” (14-16)
Ambiguous use of a personal pronoun
Suggests absence of specific antecedent
“Prince”
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26. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
THEME
“I sit on the grass and/ Start a poem, but the pathos of/ It overcomes me” (16-18)
Pathos
Evoking pity, compassion or sorrow
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27. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
THEME
“The future/ Slips imperceptibly away” (18-19)
Imperceptibly
Extremely subtle
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28. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
Shakespeare: Sonnet 104
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand, Steal from his figure and no pace perceived; So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion and mine eye may be deceived: For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred; Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.
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29. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
Shakespeare: Sonnet 104
Subtle change in beauty
We do not notice the change
Yet it is always changing
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30. Geschke/English IV "Jade Flower Palace"
THEME
“Who can say what the years will bring?” (20)
Lack of knowledge/certainty of what is to come
If this is the outcome of a powerful prince, what lies ahead for us?
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