A Poet Who Loved Stars
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In the ____ where seasons pass in a hurry
____ fills the air.
And ____ I stand, without a worry,
To ____ all the stars there.
Memory for one ____,
Love for ____ star,
Loneliness for ____ star,
____ for another star,
Poetry for ____ star,
And, oh, ____, mother for another star.
본문 2
Have you read ____ lines before?
They are part of the ____ "Counting Stars at Night" by Yoon Dong-ju.
The poem was written a long time ago but still remains one of Korea's favorite ____.
Dong-ju was born in 1917 near ____, China.
As a young boy, he ____ sports, and he was a soccer player for his school.
He also loved sewing so much that he ____ the numbers on all his friends' soccer uniforms.
However, it was literature that he ____ most.
In elementary ____ he wrote a lot of poems.
He even ____ a literary magazine with his cousin, Song Mong-gyu.
In middle school he once borrowed a poetry book by a famous poet of the ____, Baek Seok, and copied the whole book by hand.
He really wanted to have his own ____ of the rare book.
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His parents wanted him to be a doctor, but Dong-ju ____ to study literature at a college in Seoul.
During his ____ years, he often hung out with other young poets and wrote poetry where he expressed feelings about his hometown and lost country.
To celebrate his graduation, he wished to publish 19 of his ____ under the title, Heaven, Wind, Stars, and Poetry.
He made three ____ of the book by hand.
____ was given to his close friend, Jeong Byeong-uk, another was presented to his favorite professor, and the last one was kept for himself.
However, his professor advised against his plan because he thought the Japanese government would not allow the ____.
Dong-ju followed his advice and ____ up the idea.
Dong-ju decided to study ____ in the country where his father had studied before.
So, in ____, Dong-ju and his cousin began to study in Japan.
On July 10 the ____ year, his cousin was arrested by the Japanese police for taking part in an independence movement.
Four days ____, Dong-ju was also arrested on the same charges.
In 1945, Dong-ju and his cousin died in prison after ____ treatment by the police.
It was just a few months later that Korea achieved ____ from Japan.
In 1948, ____ Byeong-uk brought Dong-ju's poems to the poet's brother, and they were finally published.
The book was given the title the poet had thought of many years ____.
His poems are loved by people of all ages, and thus they still shine brightly in our hearts ____ the stars in the autumn night sky.