The poem "Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poetry"

1.
Sky, wind, stars, and poetry

Self-portrait | Boy | Snowy Map | Night of Return | Hospital | New Road | Street without Signs | The Morning of the Beginning | Another Morning of the Beginning | Until Dawn | A Fearful Time | The Cross | The Wind Blows | A Sad People | I Close My Eyes and Go | Another Hometown | Road | Star-Counting Night

2.
white shadow

White Shadow | Loving Memories | Flowing Streets | Easily Written Poems | Spring

3.
night

Night | Testament | Portrait of a younger brother | Comfort | Liver | Mountain stream | Confession

4.
Eight Beatitudes

Eight Blessings | A Sleepless Night | Like the Moon | A Pepper Field | A Hall of Love | A Miracle | A Rainy Night | A Window | The Sea | Birobong | An Afternoon in a Mountain Valley | Meditation | A Shower | A Cold and Warm World | Scenery | A Moonlit Night | Chapter | When Twilight Becomes the Sea | Morning | Laundry | A Dream Is Broken | A Forest | A Day Like This | On the Mountain | Sunny Side | Chicken | Heart 1 | Heart 3 | Pigeon | Twilight | Southern Sky | The Blue Sky | On the Street | Life and Death | A Candle

5.
Sanulrim

Echoes of the Mountain | Sunflower Face | The Gwitturami and I | Baby's Dawn | Sunlight and Wind | Firefly | Both | Lie Beak | Snow | Sparrow | Sole Pattern | Letter | Spring | What Do We Eat? | Chimney | Sun Rain | Broom | Roof Tiles | Manneken Pis Map | Chick | Seashell | Winter

6.
meal ticket

Meal Ticket | Lark | Farewell | On Moranbong | Afternoon Field | Granary | That Woman | Sorrow | Cosmos | Sick Rose | Fantasy | No Tomorrow | Pocket | Dog | Hometown | Autumn Night | Airplane | Tree | Apple | Snow | Chicken | Grandfather | Mandoli

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prose

Turgenev's Hill | Shooting the Moon | Where a Shooting Star Falls | Flowers Bloom in the Garden | The End

8.
A poem excavated later

Chest 2 | Window Hole | Dog 2 | Depression | Night Walk | Behind the Rain | Mother | Street Tree

Awakening dormant vocabulary to lead intelligent conversations

The French national research institute, Collège de France, stated that “writing by hand creates a special neural circuit that operates automatically, making learning easier” as the transcription of “Yoon Dong-ju’s Complete Poetry Collection for Literacy” is the most reliable way to read slowly.
The hand is not only a motor organ that carries out commands from the brain, but also a sensory organ that provides the most information to the brain. Therefore, the more you use your hand, the greater the stimulation applied to the frontal lobe. In the process, the frontal lobe, which is the center of the brain, goes beyond interpreting the stimulation and engages in creative activities.
When it comes to writing, you can't leave out poet Yun Dong-ju.
When Yun Dong-ju heard that his favorite poet Baek Seok's poetry collection, "Deer," had been published, he tried to get it before others, but was unable to, so he transcribed the entire collection and read it to improve his literacy and reflect on the poetic ideas.


Yun Dong-ju's poetry collection was first published posthumously in 1948 by Jeong-eumsa under the title "Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poetry."
Yun Dong-ju's 31 poems are included in parts 1 to 3, and are included in chapters 1 to 3 of this book.
In 1955, an expanded edition of “Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poetry” was published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Yun Dong-ju’s death.
In addition to the first edition, 62 poems and prose pieces were added, bringing the total to 93 pieces.
The added poems and prose are works that were made public in December 1948 when Yun Hye-won, Yun Dong-ju's younger sister, moved south to Seoul and brought all of her brother's manuscripts and favorite books from their hometown. (At the time, Yun Hye-won was under strict surveillance and was unable to bring a photo album.
I was afraid that if I did something wrong, I would be caught by the guards and have my precious manuscript stolen, so I left the album at a relative's house with the plan to retrieve it later, but something came up and I couldn't retrieve it.
It is said that Yun Hye-won regretted this for a long time and was heartbroken.) Of the 57 additional poems, 35 were included in the third part, “Confessions,” the remaining 22 were children’s songs and were included independently in the fourth part, and five prose pieces were included in the fifth part.
In this book, the poems added to Part 3 are divided into 4 chapters, the children's songs from Part 4 are divided into 5 chapters, and the five prose pieces are divided into 7 chapters.
The 1979 expanded edition included poems brought by Yun Hye-won from Yongjeong and 23 newly discovered works by Yun Dong-ju that had been withheld from inclusion to determine their authenticity.
It is included in Chapter 6 of this book.

Eight poems that were not included in existing Yun Dong-ju poetry collections, including poems that were incomplete or marked for deletion from the manuscript, are included in Chapter 8 of this book.
The notation of this poetry collection follows modern notation as much as possible, but as long as it does not interfere with reading, I tried to preserve the feeling of the original text as much as possible. Some words that were included differently depending on the year of publication, such as '얼골/얼굴' and '코쓰모쓰/코모스', were written as they were published at the time so that the changes can be conveyed.
All famous writers, including Hemingway, Kim Hoon, Kim Young-ha, Shin Kyung-sook, and Han Kang, wrote in manuscript.
It is said that if you sit quietly, read a sentence, and slowly write it down by hand, complicated matters will naturally be resolved, and the feeling of writing on paper helps relieve stress.
Readers will also improve their vocabulary and writing skills through transcription, as well as awaken their memories.

5 Ways to Improve Your Writing Skills by Writing

If you write it down, it's poet Yun Dong-ju!!
All famous writers have written manuscripts.
It is said that when Yun Dong-ju heard that his favorite poet Baek Seok's poetry collection, "Deer," had been published, he tried to get it before others, but was unable to, so he copied the entire collection and read it, recalling the poetic spirit.
If readers also transcribe the entire 『Complete Collection of Yun Dong-ju's Poetry』 and read the commentary on the poems, their comprehension of sentences will naturally improve.

Writing is the most precious time of immersion
There is a saying that if you try hard, you will win.
There are many differences in understanding the content of a text between reading it with your eyes and trying to write it out yourself.
As you keep writing, you will experience dormant vocabulary awakening and memories coming back to life.
Also, once you hold a writing instrument, the feeling of writing on paper that makes you want to keep writing and drawing helps relieve stress and even provides time for meditation.

Transcription broadens your understanding of sentences.
Transcription is the best way to learn vocabulary and sentences while also developing and practicing writing skills by copying beautiful lines from good poetry.
Furthermore, it can be said to be the fastest way to grow into a poet who writes good poetry.
Therefore, as you transcribe, your memory of vocabulary and sentences will improve explosively without you even realizing it, to a level that is incomparable to when you just read.

If you try one, you will know two, three.
There is an idiom in Chinese that says, “Hear one and know ten.”
The same goes for the proverbs, “See one and know ten,” and “Teach one and know ten.”
Therefore, if you concentrate on writing 『Yoon Dong-ju's Complete Poetry Collection』 with all your heart, your literacy and vocabulary will naturally improve, and your writing skills will naturally improve. This will give you confidence in your writing, and you will be able to write essays along with poetry easily.

Once you finish writing, it becomes your own special treasure.
After I have completely transcribed 『Yoon Dong-ju's Complete Poetry Collection』 'Sky, Wind, Stars and Poetry', I will have created a treasured book of my own.
Although it is a collection of Yun Dong-ju's poems, it is a book that I have carefully copied, so it has special meaning and is a treasure worth owning.
If the manuscript in which poet Yun Dong-ju copied Baek Seok's poetry collection had survived to this day, its value would be beyond imagination.