Pick one poem from the Classic of Poetry (Shijing ) [Owen, pp. 10-57], and answer all three of the
following questions, based on your own reading of the text rather than any external sources:
1. What kind of person do you imagine is speaking the poem? (ex., gender, social class, position or role
in society, attitude, and other aspects of the speaker)
2. Who do you imagine the audience is for the poem? (ex., gender, social class, position or role in
society, attitude, and other aspects of the listener)
3. What do you think the speaker is trying to communicate to the audience? (ex., their concerns,
anxieties, desires, goals of persuasion)