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Yun, Dong-ju"s "One Night I Count the Stars" is the poem that was written during the Japanese colonial era, during when Japan was imposing to the Korean people to change their names to Japanese. Therefore, the word "name" written eight times in this poem connotations the political meaning to resist ...

Yun, Dong-ju"s "One Night I Count the Stars" is the poem that was written during the Japanese colonial era, during when Japan was imposing to the Korean people to change their names to Japanese. Therefore, the word "name" written eight times in this poem connotations the political meaning to resist Japan"s colonial policy. But this poem resonates with deeper meaning. The poet beholds the Stars in the night sky and calls our the names of those he misses. This is an act of connecting the weak earthly beings to the heaven, which is an everlasting realm. However, the poet failed to find his own star and wrote his name on the hill and then buried it. Such action is synonymous to him foretelling his own death because the "name" refers to his own being in this poem. But then again, the poet states about the resurrection of his "name" at the end of the poem. The poet paradoxically conveys his self-consciousness by the denial of himself. In this light, the "self" in this poem actually would refer to the universe that contains this era. It was an era of later stage of Japanese colonialism. And the innate pain and suffering during this era made the poet to self-examine his own existence and origin. So in essence, this poem shows us how the universal self that is defined in this way re-defines the historical self of the era.

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