Ingelegde Lywe
On a Wandering Day
2021-03-05
A translation of Kim So-Yeop’s poem “떠도는 날에”One day, unbeknownst to me,a thief slipped inside,stole my heart*and ran away. In search of my lost treasureI wander for ten years, until on the tip of a naked twig I meet the sun,then turn back home.I break the rusted lockand enter my room:for ten years my heart, now rusted too,lay waiting unharmed in the dust.* “heart”, line 3: the word “마음” can translate as both heart and mind.---While it seems simplistic at first, the poem is an allegory of enlightenment (satori). Upon an encounter with the Sun the speaker realise that the thing she thought was lost were actually always there, inside, if only she had looked. The lost "heart" symbolises the
2021-03-05
A translation of Kim So-Yeop’s poem “떠도는 날에”One day, unbeknownst to me,a thief slipped inside,stole my heart*and ran away. In search of my lost treasureI wander for ten years, until on the tip of a naked twig I meet the sun,then turn back home.I break the rusted lockand enter my room:for ten years my heart, now rusted too,lay waiting unharmed in the dust.* “heart”, line 3: the word “마음” can translate as both heart and mind.---While it seems simplistic at first, the poem is an allegory of enlightenment (satori). Upon an encounter with the Sun the speaker realise that the thing she thought was lost were actually always there, inside, if only she had looked. The lost "heart" symbolises the
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