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January 15, 2014

Sijos

        Tree of Unhappiness
   Kim Sang – yong (1592 – 1637)
   (Translated by Graeme Wilson)

On broad leaves of pau-low-nia
The one and only tree
Whereon the phoenix will set foot
The rain falls heartlessly.

The rain’s sad tapping overhead
Compounds my weight of grief.
Who now could have the heart to plant
Trees of so broad a leaf?


               Pomegranates
         Sin Hum (1566 – 1628)
    (Translated by Graeme Wilson)

It rained last night, the pomegranates
Red and oranges
Have all burst into flower.
 
Not to be comfort,
I sit in this cool pavilion
Set in a lotus lake
And under its glass-bead curtains wait
For my closed heart to break.


                   Girl in the Rain
             Anonymous (18th century)
         (Translated by Graeme Wilson)

Her violet cloak clutched round her head,
As quickly as she can
She runs through rain-fall to the pear bloomed
Village and a man.

What blandishments, I wonder,
What whispers, what untrue
But wonderful promises
Have soaked that silly through.

16 comments:

  1. I hope the author could include the interpretation of these poems.

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  2. I hope the meaning of the poem was written in there, so lazy to read and analyze it.

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  3. what are the interpretation of these poems?

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  4. I HOPE THERE"S AN INTERPRETATION

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  5. I hope i can see the meaning of these ... comment please

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  6. I hope i can see the meaning of these ... comment please

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  7. Was this about a love story? Its sooo hard to analyze. Can anybody give an interpretation?

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  8. what is the meaning of these three poems??Answer pls

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  9. what is the meaning of the last 2 lines in the girl in the rain?
    But wonderful promises
    Have soaked that silly through.

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    1. The girl trying to make herself happy and forget the sorrow of being rejected

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  10. What is the conflict of the story

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    1. What is the meaning of

      Where on the phoenix will set foot
      The rain falls heartlessly

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  11. What is the meaning of last first paragraph line

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  12. what blandishments does a mother use to make her five-year-old child stop crying? what blandishments does a girl make to catch a boy's attention?

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