1. Look at the Part 1. Find the similes and metaphors and record them (and what they compare) below.

2. What is your impression of China in the first stanza? Record the lines that give you this impression.

3. Would you want to live there? Why or why not? (Remember: these are your biases)

4. Does this stanza remind you of anything else you have read before?

5. Look at the first stanza in Part 2. Find the similes and metaphors and record them (and what they compare) below.

6. What do the "roads" refer to?

7. Is this related to the American Dream?

8. Which themes can you see that we have discussed before?

9. Look at the second stanza in Part 2. Find the similes and metaphors and record them (and what they compare) below.
10. What does the author mean by "another wilderness"? How does it make you feel?

11. How does the tone change from the first stanza?

12. Look at the third and fourth stanza in Part 2. What does the "Jade link handcuff" suggest? What theme does it relate to?

13. Based on this poem, what are the positive and negative aspects of the "American Dream"?

14. Write below: How does this poem express the importance of Cultural Identity? Do you agree or disagree with it?