Q 1. 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? 2. Identify each of the following: Peking, the Summer Palace, and Kuen Ming Lake. 3. List 3 vivid images from the poem. 4. List 3 vivid images from your own childhood. 5. Choose one of the images from your childhood and write either your own poem or a descriptive paragraph on that image.