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Crow’s-Eye View: Poem No. 1 scrap

by Yi Sanggo link October 19, 2016

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Yi Sang

Yi Sang (1910-1937) is a well-known author of the Japanese occupation period. He was active in every genre, writing poetry, fiction, and essays. His poems and stories, in particular, exhibit the characteristics of modernism in the 1930s. In his poems, he showed us the desolate landscape of the modern human mind, and with the use of anti-realist techniques in works such as “Crow’s Eye View, Poem No.I,” he gave us a stark view of his subject matter: pure anxiety and horror. In his stories, as well, he deconstructed the formal conventions of fiction and laid bare the modern condition. For example, in the short story “Wings,” he used stream-of-consciousness to express the alienation of modern human beings, who are fragmented, commodified, and unable to function in their daily lives. All 80 or so of his works are compiled together in the collected works by Yi Sang.

13ChildrenRushdownaStreet.
(AdeadendalleyisSuitable.)

The1stChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The2ndChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The3rdChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The4thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The5thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The6thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The7thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The8thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The9thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The10thChildsaysit’sfrightening.

The11thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The12thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
The13thChildsaysit’sfrightening.
13Childrenwerejustgatheredtogetherlikethataseither
frighteningorfrightenedChildren
(TheabsenceofanyotherConditionwashighlypreferable.)

IfAmongstthem1ChildisafrighteningChildit’sfine.
IfAmongstthem2ChildrenarefrighteningChildrenit’sfine.
IfAmongstthem2ChildrenarefrightenedChildrenit’sfine.
IfAmongstthem1ChildisafrightenedChildit’sfine.

(AsforaroadevenanopenalleyisSuitable.)
Evenif13ChildrendonotRushdowntheStreetit’sfine.
 

Translated by Walter K. Lew
 

 

 

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Yi Sang

Yi Sang

Yi Sang (1910-1937) is a well-known author of the Japanese occupation period. He was active in every genre, writing poetry, fiction, and essays. His poems and stories, in particular, exhibit the characteristics of modernism in the 1930s. In his poems, he showed us the desolate landscape of the modern human mind, and with the use of anti-realist techniques in works such as “Crow’s Eye View, Poem No.I,” he gave us a stark view of his subject matter: pure anxiety and horror. In his stories, as well, he deconstructed the formal conventions of fiction and laid bare the modern condition. For example, in the short story “Wings,” he used stream-of-consciousness to express the alienation of modern human beings, who are fragmented, commodified, and unable to function in their daily lives. All 80 or so of his works are compiled together in the collected works by Yi Sang.

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