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A Study on Lee Kwang-soo's Poetry(1)-Focusing on the Three People's Poems(1929) and A collection of poems written by Chunwon(1940)

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2020, (19), pp.67-101
  • DOI : 10.31809/crj.2020.12.19.67
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature
  • Received : October 30, 2020
  • Accepted : December 6, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Lim Sooman 1

1한국교원대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper considered the poems of Chunwon(春園) Lee Gwang-soo(李光洙) in chronological order. Because he said he wanted to capture his inner truth in a poem that he had never done to anyone, I wanted to examine through his poems the path of the extreme transition that led him to the pro-Japanese leadership, who was an ardent nationalist. Based on these research objectives, the scope of the study was limited to the end of the 1930s when his pro-Japanese activities began to appear. In his early poems, there is a clear attitude that he will devote himself to comforting and empowering his fellow countrymen in distress through writing. However, there are many signs of disappointment and frustration as much as his love for his country began to appear from the early 1920s. I took a look at the coexistence of these two things, focusing on the Three People's Poems published in 1929. Meanwhile, in the poems of early and mid 1930s, the love and hatred of the country and its compatriots was further advanced, driving Chunwon into despair at various levels. I wanted to look through the aspects of such despair and his inner self until he returned to Buddhism This study was completed at the point of confirming that Chunwon's path to pro-Japanese activities could be a religion. I took note of the image of the" Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva statue(觀音像)" in his poetry at this time. Through religion, he hoped to save the soul on a personal level and to find a way to national renewal. Specifically, Chunwon overlapped the image with her mother's image, and even contained the nation's or even the ideology of "Daedongagongyeong(大東亞共榮)". This combination was a medium of religious ecstasy. In order to think more deeply about this, a review of Chun-won's pro-Japanese poems as well as further study and reflection on the relationship between fascism and religion will be needed.

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