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Crow's Eye View
Crow's Eye View (Hangul: 오감도, Hanja: 烏瞰圖) is 15 series of Korean poem written by Yi Sang. It was published on 《Chosunjoongangilbo (Hanja: 朝鮮中央日報)》 from July 24, 1934 to August 8. The poem was originally planned as 30 series, but Yi Sang could only publish 15 because many readers sent letters that the poetry is too hard to understand. It is impossible to grasp the specific meaning of poetry, and only anxiety, fear, and confusion are vaguely conveyed to readers in the overall feeling of poetry. Origin of title A Bird's-eye view, bird's eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird. The poet replaced 鳥 (which means bird) to 烏 (which means crow) as the title. The general view of the meaning of the title is that these titles are intentional expressions to reveal anxiety. The word crow, which traditionally means misfortune, also makes the atmosphere of this poem reluctant. There is also an ane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them, and they are systematically modified to indicate phonetic features; similarly, the vowel letters are systematically modified for related sounds, making Hangul a featural writing system. It has been described as a syllabic alphabet as it combines the features of alphabetic and syllabic writing systems, although it is not necessarily an abugida. Hangul was created in 1443 CE by King Sejong the Great in an attempt to increase literacy by serving as a complement (or alternative) to the logographic Sino-Korean ''Hanja'', which had been used by Koreans as its primary script to write the Korean language since as early as the Gojoseon period (spanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
