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A Poem That Came Easily

A Poem That Came Easily Y U N T O N G J U Yun Tongju was born in north Kando, in northeastern Manchuria in 1918. He went to Yonhu i College (now Yonsei University) in Seoul and then to Doshisha University in Kyoto. Arrested by the Japanese in 1943, he was imprisoned in Fukuoka prison, where he died in 1945, possibly a victim of medical experimentation. His one collection, Hanu l kwa param kwa pyol kwa si (Sky, wind, stars, and poetry), was published posthumously in 1948 and continues to be extraordinarily popular. Yun Tongju remains a heroic figure in Korean literature. The night rain whispers outside the window of my six-mat room, in an alien country. The poet has a sad vocation, I know; should I write another line of poetry? Having received my tuition from home in an envelope soaked with the smell of sweat and love, I tuck my college notebook under my arm and go off to listen to the lecture of an old professor. Looking back, I see that I have lost my childhood friends: one and two at a time--all of them. What was it that I was hoping for, and why am I simply sinking http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Manoa University of Hawai'I Press

A Poem That Came Easily

Yun, Tong-ju
Manoa , Volume 18 (1) – Aug 3, 2006
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Y U N T O N G J U Yun Tongju was born in north Kando, in northeastern Manchuria in 1918. He went to Yonhu i College (now Yonsei University) in Seoul and then to Doshisha University in Kyoto. Arrested by the Japanese in 1943, he was imprisoned in Fukuoka prison, where he died in 1945, possibly a victim of medical experimentation. His one collection, Hanu l kwa param kwa pyol kwa si (Sky, wind, stars, and poetry), was published posthumously in 1948 and continues to be extraordinarily popular. Yun Tongju remains a heroic figure in Korean literature. The night rain whispers outside the window of my six-mat room, in an alien country. The poet has a sad vocation, I know; should I write another line of poetry? Having received my tuition from home in an envelope soaked with the smell of sweat and love, I tuck my college notebook under my arm and go off to listen to the lecture of an old professor. Looking back, I see that I have lost my childhood friends: one and two at a time--all of them. What was it that I was hoping for, and why am I simply sinking

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Manoa – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Aug 3, 2006

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