I am not entirely sure in what context you pronounce 行く as ゆく. I've read that
it is pronounced as ゆく in more formal situations and in songs. For example, in
the song lyric 闇へと進み行く it is pronounced as ゆく. Is this correct? Is it only
pronounced as ゆく in songs and formal situations? Surely there must be
something deeper to it than that.
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In what context do you pronounce 行く as ゆく?
Yo User13701, you use ゆく instead of いく when you:

  * want to show off.
  * write a song.
  * write a poem.
  * say the train/bus/plan etc direction.
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いく and ゆく are the same meaning. Dictionaries say ゆく is a little literary and
いく is a little colloquial.

ゆく seems to have been more used than いく in ancient days. And there are some
words in which only ゆく is used, like 消えゆく, [行方]{ゆくえ}.

In addition, when 行く is placed before verbal auxiliary た and a postpositional
particle て, it is usually read いった and いって.
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