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The Feeling of Reading a Poem of Ji-yong Jeong, ‘Café France’: Focusing on Deictic Shift Theory of Cognitive Poetics

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The purpose of this paper is to study ‘Café France’ of Ji-yong Jeong, using Deictic Shift Theory of Cognitive Poetics. Throughout the past discussions, ‘Café France’ was analyzed in order to discuss the modern time and perceptive problems, and the recreation of modernity. The discussions have established one set of process of understanding ‘Café France.’ Poetry naturally desires to obtain a variety way of understanding. Attempts to read the poems in many different ways are the way to show present values of the poems. Therefore, the study suggests a variety of reading methods to understand poems according to deictic shift theory at reader’s level. First of all, divide poem into two parts based on spatial deictic areas in poem—the first to fourth stanza as the first part and the fifth to ninth stanza as the second part. In chapter 2, understanding of deixis, numbers of lines in a stanza, syntax structure, speaker, etc. in the first to fourth stanza are studied with a variety of deictic shift theory. In chapter 3, studying description of space of the café’s interior is continued to description of ‘My’ feeling; thus, contents of the speaker are analyzed. Then, existing things inside the café will be analyzed in a view of readers. This poem has unclear speaker because of incomplete syntactic structure and it is difficult to understand its contents. In addition, the vague subjects confuse the reader’s understanding. However, hidden speaker or vague deixis, structure of the lines in a stanza, incomplete syntactic structure, etc. direct the audiences to the various deictic areas. As a result, in a view of reader, understanding of poem varies.

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