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Poetic Space in Kim Hye-Soon’s Poems

PARK YOUNG WOO 1

1경기대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Poetic space can be said to be a form of order given by the power of imagination. When poetic space is formed by imagination, imagination will act on it between a poet and an object. After putting an outer world into a poet’s consciousness, he or she expresses it by the symbolic form through poetic space. Therefore, composing and organizing poetic space means not only providing it with certain function but also projecting life, material and breath into it. This study searched for poetic space, Seoul which appears dominantly in Kim Hye-Soon’s collection of poems, “My Upanishad, Seoul” and investigated how it is formed poetically by her poetic consciousness. The body in Kim’s poems, which has been discussed much in the preceeding studies, is not only a means to show negative reality negatively but also a way to internalize such negative reality and paradoxically open her to the world. In her poems, ‘Seoul’ is the very space where her expression through bodies is embodied. ‘Seoul’ in her poems is the embodied space that inner space, space linked to the world, and the inner and outer world are incarnated. It is specially noticed that ‘Seoul’ in her poems does not confide only critical opinion to the daily life of the modern city and the tyrannies and problems of capitalism, but enlarges the poetic messages that are 【Abstracts】 김혜순 시의 시적 공간 167 internalized in her self. Therefore, the poetic space in her poems is an abstracted place that people living normally in this era acknowledge awkwardly as well as the place where she herself actually lives.

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