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Everything Yearned For

About the E-Books

Title Sub
Manhae's Poems of Love and Longing
Author
Han Yung Un
Co-Author
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Translator
Francisca Cho
Preface
David R McCann
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Published Year
2013
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Poetry > 20th century poetry

Original Title
한용운 시선집
Romanization of Original
hanyongun siseonjip
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9780861718481
Page
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About the Author

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  • Han Yong-un
  • Birth : 1879 ~ 1944
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Yong-un
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한용운
  • ISNI : 0000000110647551
  • Works : 62
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Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Manhae (1879-1944), or Han Yongun, was a Korean Buddhist (Son) monk during the era of Japanese colonial occupation (1910-1945). Manhae is a political and cultural hero in Korea, and his works are studied by college students and school children alike.

Everything Yearned For is a collection of 88 love poems, evocative of the mystical love poetry of Rumi, and even reminiscent of the work of Pablo Neruda.Though Manahe's poetry can be read allegorically on many levels - political and religious - it is completely unlike any other poetry in Buddhist or secular realm.

The first poem, "My Lover's Silence," narrates the lover's departure and establishes the enduring themes of the work: the happiness of meeting, the sadness of separation, the agony of longing and waiting, and, most of all, the perfection of love in absence that demands the cost of one's ongoing life, as opposed to the relief of death. The Korean word translated in these poems as "love" and "lover" is nim, though nim has many and broad interpretations. Understandably, the identity of Manhae's lover, or "nim" has been the subject of much speculation.

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