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A Study on Possibility of Ethical Subject in Kim, Jong-sam's Poems

SeulA Chung 1

1성신여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The goal of this article is to consider Jong-sam Kim as an appearance of modernity in 1950s, verify the aspect of adjusting practical problems while digging into an image of ‘new language’, and then find a place of the created subject. In the poems of Jong-sam Kim, the process of creating new poetic subject under verbal weave appears in a way obtaining esthetic distance in the subjective and imaginative time. And lyricism found in the process meets the modernity refreshingly explored by the poems of Jong-sam Kim. The process of transforming the subject by death as an accident is appeared in way of calling ‘Auschwitz’ in the Kim’s poems; the place of transformed subject ultimately reached through a transcendental situation is identified as the ethical subject having ‘responsibility’. The esthetic foundation of Kim’s poems is closely related to the experience of war, and it is extended to the perspective of detecting ‘social disharmony’. Thus,the poems based on ‘the Korean war' and ‘Auschwitz’, which is the world history affair, are analyzed to understand the aspect of concern and anxiety of limited human being in the way of extracting the meaning of death. ‘Auschwitz’ called as the place of experiencing the others by the others is where to encounter the face of others approaching as inconvenience. The experienced faces of the others in this place urge the subject stayed in sameness to escape from oneself to become a human being considering others with a conscience. Here, the ‘face’ is a synecdoche of otherness neutralizing my power and encouraging my ethical behavior, as referred by Levinas. That is, the ethics of ‘responsibility’ is demanded to the subject who sees the others experiencing the affairs of brutal and ruthless violence,war, and death. Here, the responsibility becomes main mechanism that opens the possibility of ‘ethical subject’ as the condition for a subject to be a subject. The evidences are found in the meta-poetry written by Jong-sam Kim with sufficient sense of identity as ‘oneself who writes poems’, and it preempts the depth of subject that appears in Korean poetry afterward through shaping the possibility of ‘ethical subject’ responding to the suffering and calling of others.

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