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ВестникЦентракорейскогоязыкаикультуры. Выпуск11
It is worth viewing the parallel with
sijo
and
gasa
texts on the topic
of hermit lifewhichmaybe found in this poem inwhich the narrator hides
from the secularmatters into a remote place:
My house is deep inPaekhan-sanmountains
Whowill look forme?
(sijo byYoonSoon
G蜎菣
12
)
In such cases the special remoteness helps the narrator estrange from
theworld, andhas a positive connotation:
Howbeautiful the eternal nature is!
Mountains, forests, grass andwoods are green.
The bluemossy rocks surround this place as a screen
White cloudsmake this place concealed.
(
証艐竛G
Cheosa-ga
The songofHermit)
This is the atmospherewhichhelps the hermit poet feel he is a part of
this special worldwhich served an abode to famous anchorites of ancient
China.
Isn’t this theCh’iMountainand theYingRiver?
Different Sky andEarth (the special world) is here
(
証艐竛G
Cheosa-ga
The songofHermit)
Incaseof lovepoetrya femalenarrator takeshisbeing remote from the
worldasnegative.Thesurroundingnature“putsobstacles” tohermeetingwith
herbeloved.At thesame timemountainsandwaterswhichform theseobstacles
serve ametaphor of the female’s feeling. In case of this text,mountains and
waters— traditional eternity symbols— aremetaphors of eternal love and
eternal longing in separationwhich they indirectly caused
13
.
⁒㤦G䦮⍞Gⶒ㧊G♮㟒G
ₗἶGₗἶG┺㔲Gₗἶ
㌂⧧Gⰺ䡖Gⵒ䧞G♮㡂
⏟ἶG⏟ἶG┺㔲G⏟ἶ
ⶎ䠞㰞G㯊G⳾⯊▪┞
න⁒㠊㰞G㯊G㠊㧊G㞢┞
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Text#448 fromDictionaryof
Sijo
Literature (
㔲㫆ⶎ䞯㌂㩚UG㩫⼧㤇G䘎㰧
).Comp.
by JeonByeong-wook. Seoul. 1962.
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Cf.with the textofa
sijo
byLeeHae
蝗豸
(text#1962fromDictionaryof
Sijo
Literature
(
㔲㫆ⶎ䞯㌂㩚UG㩫⼧㤇G䘎㰧
). Comp. by JeonByeong-wook. Seoul. 1962):
Only if theT’sang-shanmountain tumbles down,
And theHsiang-shuei river runs dry
My longingwill come toan end.
