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From René Char to Yi Yuk-Sa ： Po-ethica of the Resistance
Cross-Cultural Studies
2014,
34(), pp.259-284
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2014.34..259
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2014.34..259
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
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René Char and Yi Yuk-Sa have similarities to be accepted as representativepoet of resistance in France and South Korea's history of literature. Thesesimilarities lead us to make a comparative study on two poets not having anypositive influencing relationship. Their experiences as a independence fighterhave a great effect on their whole works. This study applies concept of"Po-ethica" to compare features and values about their works. This concept anticipates ethical and existential throwbacks not an aestheticthrowback. Their poems are remarkable that they not only present a ethicalperspectives surpassing the "lettrism" but also show the lyricism in poems ofresistance surpassing patriotic and ideological appeal. This lyricism results fromthe pursuits of a true life not a confidence of the goodness. The similarities and differences in their works can be a clue for rediscoveringthe meaning and values of poems of resistance. Rilke said, "The Poem is theexperience". Char's poems are more experiential than any other poet's poems. His poems of resistance show a personal life than deconstruction of discoursesuch as nationality and father·land. On the other hand, Yuk-Sa's poems showa prospect of nature and the macrocosm. This naturalization of a resistancesurpass a pastoral attitude of forgetting their phases of the times and reality. Therefore, their " "Po-ethica"" of resistance is valid today.
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