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Aspiration for a Transcendental Realm and Home Consciousness

Park, Seon-young 1

1성신여자대학교

ABSTRACT

Yang, Meoung-moon started to engage seriously in writing activity by publishing his first poetry book Hwasuwon (華愁園) in 1940. From then on, he wrote profusely including 6 personal poetry books, one collection of poetry, and one collaboration work of poetry, up until his publication of Global Village (Jiguchon) in 1984. However he was not properly studied nor appreciated in spite of his tenacious writing career over 40 years, proficiency, and major activity within the literary circle. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine his works that have been ignored by the critics and public, by classifying them into a few thematic categories. First, his poetry book Hymn (Songga) described the culture and scenary of Pyeongannam-do by creatively using its simple and unique vernacular language. Second, in his works Martian (Hwaseongin) and Blue Legend (Puren-jeonseol), he was represented as an equivalent symbol who was hurt by the displacement in a foreign environment, hence unable to settle down. Third, in the works The Apocalypse (Muksirok) and Global Village (Jiguchon), the emotion of deficiency was intensified as a spiritual longing, in which the poet's yearning for entering into the utopia that was created to overcome tribulations in reality was expressed. He was an idealist throughout his life who never gave up the hope for a transcendental completeness. Such inclination was manifested in reality as a longing for home, in utopia as the world of ideology and transcendence, and in faith. The home as a spatial utopia was filled with the longing caused by losing one's home. Accordingly the subject matter of his poetic world was the poetic passion created in the course of his constant yearning for a completeness due to the tribulations in reality.

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