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ВестникЦентракорейскогоязыкаикультуры. Выпуск11
Is there anyone likeme?
By daywhen the sun rises and sets in
Theflowers bloom and fade by themselves.
How did
This dew-like life ofmine appear?
At the twilightwhen it iswindy
The foul rain pours down and the sky is coveredwith clouds,
I enter the empty room andgoout again
I go back-and-forth and stand alone
After Iwaited and looked I saw:
My longingwas in vain.
Hasn’t lonely longing in separationof a beauty in an empty room
Always been like this?
Am I alone like this?
Aren’t others like this?
Ismybeloved in lovewith someone else
After he lovedme?
Is he like this because he does not care forme?
Is he like this because he has feelings forme?
Themountainpheasant, thewildgoose having taken the road
Does not knowhow to land,
Having broken and grabbed
Thewillowby the road, theflower by the fence
Doesn’t hewander around,moved by the springmoods?
If the goingdream [is so common that] leaves foot-prints,
The road [formybeloved] to comewill become obscure.
After one dies and leaves
It is difficult to come again (?).
Maybe if you still have some feelings forme,
Please,make usmeet again.
The poem is composed on the behalf of a woman and is completely
a lamentation of the narrator separated with her beloved. Owing to the
entity of the thematic line the same “point of view” throughout the text is
preserved.At thesame time the text isnot anarrativewithaunitedstyleas it
ischaracterizedbyan interchangeofsuchelementsasapositivestatement, a
question, a rhetorical question, a request etc.Structurally the interchangeof
these elements is not systematic, and this creates anatural impression: as if
the textfixes thedisorganizedflowof the femalenarrator’semotionswhich
thenarrator expresseswithout thinking.Asuggestionmaybemade that this
is theway the readers of the time perceived this text. The fact that the full
