
Fifty Japanese advisers, "men of little experience and less responsibility," work in Seoul, producing many ordinances and new regulations as the government is changed from an absolute. Japan creates an assembly to discuss everything that happens in the realm of Korea. Their country, with five thousand years of history, has lost it to the Japanese. No other nations have their independence. The passage of a day is described and the poet speaks of being suspended between the two states of night and day, a liminal state that is between borders.

There are no people without a nation and ancestry. The first of the three poems is a lyrical poem titled Aller/Retour, which translates to Go/Return.

"Truth embraces with it all other abstentions other than itself." She calls their names, Joan of Arc three times and Ahn Joon Kun five times. She makes her duration (her lifetime) complete as others before her have made theirs complete, without the leisure to examine the truths and untruths according to history. She is born of one mother and one father.

The quote is: May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve (i). Yu Guan Soon is born on Maand dies October 20, 1920. Dictee Themes The Communal Nature of Creation The book begins with a quote attributed to Sappho, a famous poet from Ancient Greece.
