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familiar symbols, it can limit the reader's imagination. Kim Duk-hee's eponymous poem can be criticized for its sentimentality, which can make it feel clichéd, and for the familiarity of its symbolic images. However, despite this, it...

for cruelty //which tries to drive mercy out of the world /by calling it names /such as ‘Humanitarianism’ and ‘Sentimentality’]. * 지시 형용사로 쓰인 that The real trouble is that ‘kindness’ is a quality /fatally easy to attribute...

for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something—an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago...

I just never do. That’s where the two questions come in: They’re objective, yes-or-no questions that remove the sentimentality and guesswork from deciding whether to keep something. They remove the emotions and provide you with a back...