Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Sung's Love Letter

Tatiana

My Little Tatiana, how lovely your letter is
Your love, your feeling, and you are altogether too beautiful.
Probably more beautiful than Juliet.

Your love have touched my feeling and your letter made me feel like a real man.

I , like you, have not forgotten the moments.
The moments that we saw that we talk that we enjoyed.

It was the best moment
The sweetest moment.

I have always dreamed the love.
I always dreamed about the woman whom I will love forever.
Whom I will be happy by just walking around the park.
Whom I will be happy by just looking at her. By just listening to her voice.

Tatiana,
Tatiana,
but I am not ready yet.

I am not ready for such luxury.

Love can be only achieved when both of us are ready.

Yet we both are far from being ready.

Tatiana,
My beautiful and young Tatiana
I can imagine your feeling but the love you have is incomplete.

The feeling you have right now shall pass,
shall pass as if had not happen.
As much I hope it does not happen,
I am so afraid that it will.


Your purity cannot be violated.
It cannot be violated by someone like me.

You are too pure
too young
too beautiful.


But


Hold your crystal
Hold your diamond

Hide your shine
and when we are both ready
When we know
let me receive yours.

Till than,

I love you
.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Tatiana's Extreme Letter

Tatiana's letter to Onegin, one of the most popular poem in Russia, contains several extremes, or hyperboles.
It is basically a love letter that discuss her unstoppable feeling toward Onegin.

In the second stanza, she says, "To say a few words, and then, and then, To think, and think, and think again. All day, all night, until the next meeting." Tatiana discuss how she felt in love instantly, and now she is discussing how she cannot get over Onegin.

Then she even blames him that he came to see her.

She goes on the poem by saying that she will not love anybody but him.
She says, "Is there to whom I'd give my heart."
She even says, "That is heaven's will - that I am yours... You were sent by heaven of that I'm sure."
She is writing this poem in a level that they cannot not be together.

She then says at last, "But your honour is my guarantee And to that I entrust my destiny."
She is even using a word like destiny to express her feeling.