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저자 Inkyung Hwang의『The Birth of Pearl』은 크게 3부로 나누어져 있으며 주옥같은 작품을 만나볼 수 있는 책이다.

Before Reading The Birth of Pearl / 5
Preface / 9

Chapter 1. Embroidering the Letters

Prelude to a New Millennium ……… 20
Sound’s Tears (I) ……… 22
Sound’s Tears (II) ……… 24
The Very Festival Looking forward to Spring ……… 27
A Fairy Song ……… 29
A Knigh’s Dream ……… 32
Flower Song ……… 35
Interlude for a New Millennium ……… 37
The Lonely Poet ……… 40
Echoes ……… 42
The Loveless Love Story ……… 44
A Lyrical Lily ……… 47
My Papers, Yellowed with Age ……… 50
A Romantic Dream Twinkling On a Shiny Mountain
……… 52
Chapter 2. Embroildering My Music

A Preliminary Bard Telling… ……… 56
Navigation on My Soul ……… 57
A Letter ……… 59
Listening to Beethoven’s Symphony Orchestra No. 6,
in the late fall ……… 63
The Flowers’ Shout ……… 65
My Music in My Imagination ……… 67
Singing a Song in My Mind ……… 70
When Yeats Meets the Artists ……… 72
Evening Sun ……… 74
On the Railroad ……… 76

Chapter 3. Sarcastic Song

Pharaoh Refusing Noah’s Ark ……… 82
Revolution and Reformation ……… 87
The White Swans on the Lake of the Secret Garden……… 91
Between the Fall and Earliest Snow ……… 93
I am not me, myself ……… 95
Wise man and idiot ……… 97
The Clay ……… 99
Music Forest on the Rainy Days ……… 102
One-eyed Giant ……… 104
Before Pearl’s Birth ……… 108

Chapter 4. Dreaming Resurrection

Waiting for a Resurrection Day ……… 112
Firewood ……… 115
Generative & Transformational Grammar ……… 116
Sunset ……… 118
Listening for Highland Cathedral by Andr?i Rieu’s Orchestra
……… 120
The Song of a Splendid Morning ……… 128
The Birth of Pearl ……… 130

Epilogue ……… 132

Preface

I didn’t know the nature of literature until I began reading and studying The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I have begun knowing the try to find what he might write since I read it. We are sinners before God. I began reading the Bible; I can experience the joy of a new relationship with God. When we are pardoned through Jesus’s death, we can be quite sure that when Jesus does return to judge, we will be acceptable to him. I recognize the nature of forgiveness. Jesus paid by dying in our place. He took the full force of God’s justice on himself, so that forgiveness and pardon might be available to us.

I had no idea of making myself read the spirit until being a Christian. I was an existentialist like Nietzsche or Sartre. I was able to understand that Hester Prynne’s A which stood for adultery with the message of “Eye for an eye and tooth for a
tooth.” However, I have been able to understand Hester Prynne’s A which stands for Angel with a generous gift of forgiveness and pardon given by Jesus Christ. Hester Prynne gave birth to Pearl. She had the power of the human spirit to overcome difficulties, under the invisible Holy Spirit. Her father, Dimmesdale’s dying with his confession of his sin. He confesses publicly and dies, as Pearl kisses him. We can recognize that suffering is a blessing as we can see the natural pearl’s birth from the painful provoking to become a splendid nacre.

Pearls are formed when an irritant, usually a parasite and not a grain of sand enters an oyster. The oyster defense against the irritant is to coat the irritant with fluid called nacre. Layer upon layer of nacre is deposited until a lustrous pearl is splendidly
formed.

It seems that Hawthorne might tell the correct point about Puritan hypocrisy emerging Puritan orthodoxy. It reminds us of the message of the Bible; "For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:20)

We don’t judge Hester Prynne just because we embrace her and Pearl with their ordeal diamond. I remember the ordeal diamond creating my poems, The Birth of Pearl. It means of our hopeful future although we have suffered from the ordeal and painful reality seeing healing the scar and a pearl's birth. I plait the ordeal beads like a pearl with my own text. I make the pearl have thick descriptions as my creating poetry, The Birth of Pearl.
Inkyung Hwang