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    The document contains three Korean poems translated to English: 1) "Tree of Unhappiness" by Kim Sang-yong describes the sadness of rain falling on the only tree that phoenixes will land on, compounding the speaker's grief. The broad leaves of the tree make one question who would want to plant such a tree. 2) "Pomegranates" by Sin Hum describes pomegranates bursting into flower after the rain, but the speaker sits waiting for their closed heart to break rather than taking comfort. 3) The anonymous "Girl in the Rain" depicts a girl running through the rain with her violet cloak clutched around her head to a village and

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    The document contains three Korean poems translated to English: 1) "Tree of Unhappiness" by Kim Sang-yong describes the sadness of rain falling on the only tree that phoenixes will land on, compounding the speaker's grief. The broad leaves of the tree make one question who would want to plant such a tree. 2) "Pomegranates" by Sin Hum describes pomegranates bursting into flower after the rain, but the speaker sits waiting for their closed heart to break rather than taking comfort. 3) The anonymous "Girl in the Rain" depicts a girl running through the rain with her violet cloak clutched around her head to a village and

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    The document contains three Korean poems translated to English: 1) "Tree of Unhappiness" by Kim Sang-yong describes the sadness of rain falling on the only tree that phoenixes will land on, compounding the speaker's grief. The broad leaves of the tree make one question who would want to plant such a tree. 2) "Pomegranates" by Sin Hum describes pomegranates bursting into flower after the rain, but the speaker sits waiting for their closed heart to break rather than taking comfort. 3) The anonymous "Girl in the Rain" depicts a girl running through the rain with her violet cloak clutched around her head to a village and

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    Tree of Unhappiness

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    Tree of Unhappiness
    Kim Sang yong (1592 1637)
    (Translated by Graeme Wilson)
    On broad leaves of pau-low-nia
    The one and only tree
    Whereon the phoenix will set foot
    The rain falls heartlessly.
    The rains sad tapping overhead
    Compounds my weight of grief.
    Who now could have the heart to plant
    Trees of so broad a leaf?

    Pomegranates
    Sin Hum (1566 1628)
    (Translated by Graeme Wilson)
    It rained last night, the pomegranates
    Red and oranges
    Have all burst into flower.
    Not to be comfort,
    I sit in this cool pavilion
    Set in a lotus lake
    And under its glass-bead curtains wait
    For my closed heart to break.

    Girl in the Rain


    Anonymous (18th century)
    (Translated by Graeme Wilson)
    Her violet cloak clutched round her head,
    As quickly as she can
    She runs through rain-fall to the pear bloomed
    Village and a man.
    What blandishments, I wonder,
    What whispers, what untrue
    But wonderful promises
    Have soaked that silly through.

    blandishment
    noun
    Often, blandishments. something, as an action or speech, that tendsto flatt
    er, coax, entice, etc.:
    Our blandishments left him unmoved. We succumbed to theblandishments o
    f tropical living.

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