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A Study Guide for Pak Tu-jin's "August River" - Gale
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River of August
Pak Tu-Jin
1963
Introduction
River of August
was written in 1963 by Korean poet Pak Tu-Jin. (Pak is the family name and Tu-Jin is the given name. Koreans put the family name first. Tu-Jin may also be spelled as Tu-jin and Tujin and Pak as Park because of variations in translation.) The poem was written to commemorate the occasion of the eighteenth anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan on August 15, 1945, and it was published in Pak's fourth book of poetry, The Human Jungle. A nature poet, Pak uses the image of a river to represent the lives of the Korean people as they traveled through the painful, humiliating occupation by Japan and the horrors of World War II to a new destiny. Having almost lost their own culture, they were positioned after liberation, according to Pak, to reclaim their heritage and recommit to building a future together as a nation. The conclusion of the poem implies that the possibilities are endless for a free and honorable people. However, Pak wrote the poem during a time when, once again, there was political upheaval in Korea, so he was using this poem to remind Koreans of the promise of August 1945 and to try to reignite that spirit of hope and national pride.
Since Pak's books are not readily available in the United States, perhaps the easiest way to find a copy of the poem is to use a journal database to locate the Korea Journal. River of August
appears in the February 1965 issue along with three other of his poems The Way to the Green Mountains,
Like a Tree,
and "River of
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