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Research on the image of Chrysanthemum flower - Regarding Beside Chrysanthemum of poet Seo as a main subject -

  • 인문논총
  • 2012, 30(), pp.37-70
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Hung Nyun Kim 1

1경남대학교

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ABSTRACT

After Jung Joo Seo's death, there was an article on the internet bulletin board of the publisher Creation and Criticism , saying absurdly that Beside a chrysanthemum is a japanophilie poem, missing Japanese king(日皇), on the pretext of a gender of chrysanthemum flower. This treatise has evolved as one of archetypal symbolic interpretations from an objection that I raised to the above article. I proved that a chrysanthemum is only a symbol of devotion and fidelity in our tradition, without distinguishing between male and female. I found that the previous investigations saying the chrysanthemum flower was poet Seo himself, were wrong, because a gender of all the flowers are female. The key point of this treatise is to claim that the chrysanthemum flower is one aspect of poet Seo's anima, after investigation of his poems singing the chrysanthemum flower and other flowers. For that purpose, I compared a blooming process of chrysanthemum flower with the structure of Rebirth myth called Initiation and explained it. The fact became known that many existing studies had not consider seriously the difference between chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum flower, the difference between (chrysanthemum) and (chrysanthemum flower) in the old writings. On this issue, even famous critics had problems in writing and reading. Also I explored that the role of mirror was exaggerated or mistaken. Here, the mirror emphasizes a feminity of older sister , and could not play any other role. When the poem is completed, the mirror seems to be interpreted as a symbol of versification. Finally, this treatise says that a punishment of betrayers is not only an urgent issue, but also a false accusation and distortion of already identified merits and demerits must not be carried, especially in the name of literary criticism. A blade of criticism has to be a blade of justice. While writing, a critic always should retrospect that himself is correct. Because it's true the crooked eyes can not reflect a target properly.

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