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?” The title vehicles “rumble and roll” in that poem in this language, (15[1])“Song of the Wagons.” The speaker of a poem in this language sees “frost on the ground” (15[1])before looking up (-5[1])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” were written in this language. For 10 points, Du Fu and Li Bai wrote poems in what language (10[1])during the Tang Dynasty? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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