North – Compass Points (북-나침판의 자침)

22 May 2011

It could be that the event had political repercussions which are beyond the compass of this poem maybe because his was not the side with those goods and services which fall within the compass of the free market even though the place had within its compass many types of agriculture and even the ship wherein Magellan compassed the world passed by here but now we hear only the cellos, playing in a rather sombre part of their compass.

It is what you get when a man has compassed his end only by the exercise of violence.

It is what you get when defining yourself by compass points.

 
 
 
 

(Author note: italics denote definitions taken from the Oxford Dictionary of English)

그 사건이 이 시의 범위를 넘어서는 정치적인 결과를 가져왔다는 것은 아마도 이것이 그 물건들 그리고 서비스와 함께 있지 못해서인데 그것은 자유시장의 범위 안에 해당되는 것으로 설령 그 장소의 범위 안에 다양한 종류의 농업을 가지고 있다 할지라도 그리고 마젤란이 나침판으로 세계를 일주했던 그 배조차도 이곳을 지나갔다 하지만 지금 우리는 오직 그 범위에서 애잔한 부분을 연주하고 있는, 첼로만 듣고 있을 뿐이라는 것일 수 있다.

이것은 오직 폭력을 행사하는 것으로만 사람이 자신의 목적을 이룰 때 당신이 얻는 것.

이것은 나침판의 자침으로 자신을 정의내릴 때 당신이 얻는 것.

 
 

Hangul translation by 김성현 (Kim Sunghyun)





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Christina Armstrong

About Christina Armstrong


I completed a Masters in Creative Writing in 2004 at the University of Wollongong and from this my first novel, Blue, was shortlisted for the 2005 The Australian Vogel Literary Award. My second novel is currently in development having been awarded a mentorship through the Australian Society of Authors. I am based in regional NSW and when not writing poetry and fiction I can be found walking through the wilderness for inspiration.



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