Posted December. 17, 2014 04:42,
Seo Jeong-joo (1915-2000)s prose with the motif of his poem A Bride has been found. The poem is part of the late poets collection of poems titled The Myth of Jilmajae, which was published in 1975.
Lovers, a quarterly literature magazine, has released Seos prose The Journal of Manchuria in its winter edition. The poet`s prose was published by Maeil Newspaper for seven days from Jan. 15, 1941, but it was not included in Seos collection of poems.
The prose depicts what he felt when he went to Manchuria to get a job, hoping for a success loneliness, frustration, and a sense of being lost. He described a story that became the motif of the poem A Bride on the Jan. 15 edition of the newspaper.
On his way to the bathroom, the bridegroom found a gentlemans robe was on the wall. He abandoned his bride because he thought she was lascivious. A decade later, he came back. The bride was sitting there exactly where she sat 10 years ago. Whether the misunderstanding was resolved or not, he held her hand. But the bride has become a handful of black ash.
Later, Seo wrote a similar story in A Bride, a poem about a womans resentment and fidelity. The poem also tells a story about a husband who left the bride for being lustful and came back in 50 years only to find her turned into ash.
It is first known how Seo wrote A Bride, said Yoo Han-geun, a professor at Digital Seoul Culture Art University and the poets student. It will be a valuable document for scholars who study Seos poems.