Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4010415-20170830081257

I singled out "poem" because it seems possible that STRQ's theme could be poetry allusions. At least some of the teams in RWBY have themes that they follow, after all.


 * RWBY - Fairy tale allusions.
 * JNPR - Allusions to people who dressed themselves as the opposite gender in their story, according to Monty.
 * CRDL - Bird names.
 * CFVY - Possibly sweets.

We know that Summer Rose alludes to the poem The Last Rose of Summer, due to both her name and the line "Thus Kindly I Scatter" from the poem being on her gravestone.

Raven and Qrow might allude to Huginn and Muninn, respectively, drawing from the poem Grímnismál. In the Burning the Candle scene where Yang tells Blake about how she began searching for her mother, the chalkboard bears the following lines from the poem:

Hugin and Munin fly each day over the spacious earth. I fear for Hugin, that he not come back, yet more anxious am I for Munin.

Raven (Huginn) left Vale, left behind everyone she had associated with at Beacon, and did not return. But Qrow (Muninn) is an alcoholic who seems to have been through a lot. Huginn and Muninn fly around the Earth and return to Odin to tell him about all of the information they had gathered that day. Qrow travels and goes on missions for Ozpin, reporting to him with info.

So, if STRQ's theme is poetry allusions, that means Taiyang may allude to a poem. But what poem? It's hard to know where to look, but there is a poem called Xiang Taiyang, by Ai Qing. I haven't found a place where we can read it, though. This is the best I could dig up so far. 