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This paper investigates the poem written by Jeong Ji-yong “Glass Window-1” through methodology of cognitive sementics. Cognitive sementics is a literary research method for attaining to creative understanding through construction of and investigation on subjective meaning by the cognitive subject; the cognitive subject cognize the meaning of language according to his subjective perspective, not according to a fixed code. What has been hitherto argued may be summed up as following. According to the analysis on overall links between metaphor and icon, input space for nature includes “steam of breath”, “pitch-dark night”, “water-soaked star” and “mountain bird”, and input space for man includes “speaker” and “me.” Hybrid space of the entire text consists of sadness, mental pain and farewell sentiment which can be felt when poetic object “flew away”, which were taken from input space for objective, and behavior of object and tears which were taken from input space. “Glass window” has two meanings in the poem written by Jeong Ji-yong. First, glass reflects inner and outer landscape, and also plays a role in connecting inner space with outer landscape. As Glass window functions as a frame, it makes outer landscape which is the object of desire into a piece of picture. The poetic speaker craves for outer landscape, that is, the object of desire through glass window. Second, glass does duty as mirror. The poetic speaker puts his feeling and situation that he cannot communicate with outer world as he was locked in a room into a glass window. Glass window plays a role as a mirror which shows the feeling of poetic speaker, and maximizes his sorrow and condition. This poem uses metaphor such as “Emotion is a material”, “Life is a journey” and “Nature is a man.” These image schemas have complementary relation one another, create hybrid space, and extend the image to emotional area, not to speak of physical action

cognitive sementics, glass window, link between metaphor and icon, input space, hybrid space, image schema