Postponed, Then Regretted: A Commentary on Ban Chilhwan's 'Hanpyeongsaeng'

Key points in 3 lines

1. This commentary on Ban Chilhwan's poem 'Hanpyeongsaeng' explores the message that it is not the length of life that matters, but how one lives it.
2. The poem shows, in turn, the time of the mayfly, the cicada that lives seven days, the seventy-year-old elder, and the tortoise that has lived a thousand years.
3. The commentary conveys the insight that we should not postpone life, and that a whole lifetime shines when we dance and sing now.

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