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The Study on the Aspects of Conflicts of the ‘Speaking Agent’ in the Poetry of Kim, Myeong-Soon

BAE OK JU 1

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We have seen that the ‘speaking subject’ in Kim’s works is considered as a ‘poetic narrator’ and the poet herself in many discourses about Kim’s poetry. The descriptor in the work is a narrator and the descriptor outside of the work is a poet; these two share roles to create poetic statements, which is the process of a poet performing articulation in the persona of a narrator. Therefore, the ‘speaking subject’ shows the poet’s world-view through the narrator who speaks in the poem. This paper aims to focus on the psychological conflict of the ‘speaking subject’ shown in Kim’s autobiographical works. Kim is one of the first female poets who actively recognized narcissism and free will as a modern woman and a pioneer of modern literature. Historically, Kim was under harsh circumstances, which was a positive momentum for her to dedicate herself to writing. Kim seems to have devoted herself actively to literature in order to bail out from the tyranny of modern male intellectuals and from the victim mentality caused by her origin. The conflict aspects of the ‘speaking agent’ appears as a monologue in anguish directed internally in early periods, but they become aggressive and show anger in the voice of the ‘speaking agent’ to the external world after the middle periods. This is not because of her amateurishness but because of her strategy. It would not have been as easy for her to show the painful reality like her origin or date rape as it is in her poetry. Instead, she chooses to show the common aspects of the experiences repeatedly to remind the readers of her situation so that her works can constantly demure the malicious views and discourses. It seems that Kim tried to overcome the situation by expressing her will of creation conceived from by her fate. After the middle periods, her poetry shows the conflicts of her identity as a citizen of Japanese colony, which appears as self-isolation and self-negation. This can be interpreted as a defense mechanism, expressing her experiences honestly in order to be confident. She went one step further and showed pity and regret for her mother, whom she denied as her origin, to return to her maternal instinct as a way to self-salvation. This indomitable will of the ‘speaking agent’ functions as a motive to survive the difficulties of her time.

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