Round 5: Tossup 8

The speaker of a poem in this language describes how “at the border posts, shed blood becomes a sea” and asks “how can a soldier dare to complain?” (15[1])The title vehicles “rumble and roll” (15[1])in that poem in this language, (15[2]-5[1])“Song of the Wagons.” The speaker of a poem in this language sees “frost on the ground” before looking up at the (*) moon, then bows his head and thinks of home. The speaker “became three” with his shadow and the moon while drinking wine in a poem in this language. “Drinking Alone by Moonlight” and “Quiet Night Thought” (10[1])were written in this language. For 10 points, Du Fu and Li Bai wrote poems in what language during the Tang Dynasty? ■END■

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