JADE FLOWER PALACE

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JADE FLOWER PALACE

• By
• Tu Fu
• (712-770)

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Most Significant Poetic Devices/ Literary Terms

• Imagery
• Diction
• Tone
• Theme

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The stream swirls (1)

• Stream
• Nature imagery
• Swirls
• Uncontrollable

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The wind moans (1)

• Wind
• Nature Imagery
• Moans
• Painful

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Gray rats scurry over/ Broken tiles (2-3)

• Gray rats
• Dirty
• desertion

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Gray rats scurry over/ Broken tiles (2-3)

• Scurry
• Quick
• Isolation
• Ownership

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Gray rats scurry over/ Broken tiles (2-3)

• Broken tiles
• Destruction
• isolation

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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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What prince, long ago,/ Built this palace,
standing in/ Ruins beside the cliffs? (3-5)

• Palace
• Place of riches/power

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What prince, long ago,/ Built this palace,
standing in/ Ruins beside the cliffs? (3-5)

• Ruins
• Destruction
• Decay
• Desertion

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There are/ Green ghost fires in the black rooms
(5-6)

• Green ghost fires
• Death
• Memories
• Haunting

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There are/ Green ghost fires in the black rooms
(5-6)

• Black rooms
• Darkness
• Emptiness

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The shattered pavements are all/ Washed away
(7-8)

• Shattered pavements
• Destruction
• Ruins

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The shattered pavements are all/ Washed away
(7-8)

• Washed away
• Destruction

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Ten thousand organ/ Pipes whistle and roar (8-9)

• Ten thousand organ pipes
• Power

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Ten thousand organ/ Pipes whistle and roar (8-9)

• Whistle and roar
• The pipes play, but we know the palace is empty
• Played by the wind
• Eerie
• Haunted
• Emptiness

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The storm/ Scatters the red autumn leaves (9-10)

• The storm
• Power of nature

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The storm/ Scatters the red autumn leaves (9-10)

• Scatters
• Brushes away without much effort

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The storm/ Scatters the red autumn leaves (9-10)

• Red autumn leaves
• Death imagery

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His dancing girls are yellow dust (11)

• His dancing girls
• Suggests his position of power
• Yellow dust
• Death imagery

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Their painted cheeks have crumbled/ Away (12-13)

• Painted cheeks
• Beauty
• Crumbled away
• Death imagery

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His gold chariots/ And courtiers are gone
(13-14)

• Possessions and admirers are gone

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Only/ A stone horse is left of his/ Glory
(14-16)

• Only
• singularly

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Only/ A stone horse is left of his/ Glory
(14-16)

• Stone horse
• Inanimate object functions as the symbol of his
  reign

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Only/ A stone horse is left of his/ Glory
(14-16)

• His
• Ambiguous use of a personal pronoun
• Suggests absence of specific antecedent
• Prince

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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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THEME

• The future/ Slips imperceptibly away (18-19)
• Imperceptibly
• Extremely subtle

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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 coldHave from
  the forests shook three summers' pride,Three
  beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'dIn
  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 perceivedSo your sweet hue, which
  methinks still doth stand,Hath motion and mine
  eye may be deceivedFor fear of which, hear
  this, thou age unbredEre you were born was
  beauty's summer dead.

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Shakespeare Sonnet 104

• Subtle change in beauty
• We do not notice the change
• Yet it is always changing

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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?