Isaiah Chapter 40 and 'In The Strange Land' Short Stories about ...

Isaiah Chapter 40 and 'In The Strange Land' Short Stories about ...


** "Come to think of how many years I've been away from home
My youth days are now gone~ in about ten years since this strange land
~Omission~
The willow at home village might be also green this spring
Yet, I miss those good old days~ blowing the flute with a willow twig"

If Go Boksu sings 'In The Strange Land' passionately, there are women shedding tears here and there in the performance and afterwards even men turning reddish around the eyes.
(What is as similar as Go Boksu's is the part 'Going home' in Dvorak's 'New World Symphony.' A mere difference is, the displaced people in 'Going Home's backdrop are Czech folks, not Korean.)

Their 'weariness in strange lands,' 'bitter tears in strange lands,' and 'desperation and emptiness in the strange lands,' which they had hidden inside their bosoms, were absorbed in the lyrics of 'In The Strange Land,' finally leading to but few of them killing themselves.
That is not the kind of popular song that we now think.

For, Go Boksu expressed the 'life in the strange land' a stranger wished to whine about only too relevantly. Without knowing such bitterness in the strange land, the part which one could not even explain of is Isaiah 40-50.
From 'See Thy God!' Text P.44

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