A. A.Guryeva.Gasapoem «SangsaByeolgok»...
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Abrook becomes a stream
Deep, deep, so deep.
Love becomes amountain
High, high, so high.
And if we cannot know if themountain falls down,
How canwe know if [the stream] ends?
Steadinessof theassociation“mountains— longing in love” isproved
byparallel images: greenmountains in10000 layers
mancheopcheongsam
Ⱒ㻿㼃㌆G耎詸誃芄
(line 9) — longing in separation in 10000 layers
mancheop sangsa
耎詸芴艙
(line 32).
As itwasmentionedbefore that thenarrator thinksofherseparationwith
her beloved as an exceptional but at the same timedoes not take a situation
whenpeople are separated as some kindof exception:
㻲㰖㧎Ṛ┞⼚㯗㠦
⋶Gṩ䔎┞Gන☚㧎⓪Ṗ
Among the peoplewhoget separatedbetween
theHeavenand theEarth
Is there anyone likeme?
In these lines we may easily find a common for the Oriental culture
triad which has been traditionally understood as the Universe-forming:
Heaven-Earth-Human
㻲T㰖T㧎
.Thus, the femalenarratorputsseparation
in the basis of theworld.
It isworthmentioning that in
sijo
genre this triad ismostlyused in the
texts related to the commonvalues:
Cf:
Between theHeavenand theEarth
Among the other things
Ahuman— is themost valuable
Or:
Probably between theHeavenand theEarth
Thewise oneswere only two of them
(Russian translationbyMariannaI. Nikitina)
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NikitinaM. I..
“Korean
Sijo
Poetry ofXVI–XIX c.”
