Taejee Seo (1980s) Classroom Idea.
[Teachers say, they will] make you more precious than the present
More than the guy next to you
Stamp their heads one by one
You can be a more valuable guy than the present
(Chapter 7)
Nanseolheon Heo (16c.)
Swallows pass the eaves flying in pairs
Petals scattered by wind brush my silk skirt
In the bridal room, waiting ails my heart
Grasses are green, yet my love in Gangnam never comes back
(Chapter 11)
Tao Yuanming (15 c.)
For all lives, death will soon come
Early death is not living short
. . .
My dear friend mourns shaking my corpse
Being dead, I cannot know anything
How could right and wrong have meaning to me
(Chapter 11)
Abu’l-Ala al-Ma’arra (11 c.)
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains
(Chapter 14)