Question

“I Ask My Mother to Sing” by Li-Young Lee

She begins, and my grandmother joins her.
Mother and daughter sing like young girls.
If my father were alive, he would play
his accordion and sway like a boat.

I’ve never been in Peking, or the Summer Palace,
nor stood on the great Stone Boat to watch
the rain begin on Kuen Ming Lake, the picnickers
running away in the grass.

But I love to hear it sung;
how the waterlilies fill with rain until
they overturn, spilling water into water,
then rock back, and fill with more.

Both women have begun to cry.
But neither stops her song.

What about the author's background might have inspired him to write a poem about his mother singing a song about a homeland Li-Young Lee never saw?

1. Identify each of the following:
a. Peking-
b. Summer Palace
c. Kuen Ming Lake
List three quotes that are examples of vivid imagery from the poem

Answer 1

Answer: Peking is the former name for Beijing so she's describing what is IN Beijing. The Summer palace seems like this all is involved, and it says the lake has scenery "the waterlilies fill with rain" It sounds like a musical place with the singing as well

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