[New-Poetry] a poem morphs

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_http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200703/kt2007032317514411990.htm_ 
(http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200703/kt2007032317514411990.htm) 
 
Tagore's Poem Distorted in Textbooks
 
By Kim Tong-hyung
Staff Reporter 
 
The April 2, 1929 edition of Dong-A Ilbo that published Tagore's The Lamp  of 
the East.
Indian literary giant Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) has  achieved nearly 
saint-like status in Korea for a poem he wrote in 1929 that  sympathized with 
Korea's independence movement under Japanese colonial rule. 

However, the poem titled ``The Lamp of the East'' seems to have been  over 
glorified to the point where it has taken on a life of its own, spawning  
hundreds of different versions with stronger words and longer passages to boost  
nationalistic sentiment. 
 
And now it seems that one of these variations has made it into a  
state-authorized high school textbook. 
 





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