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Oh, Jang-hwan’s Poetry in the Era of Independence

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2005, (54), pp.411-433
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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1전북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study is to find out the qualities of Oh, Jang-hwan’s poetry in the era of independence. Appearing in the poetry world in 1930’s, he replaced the volition of independence suppressed because of colonial extreme situation with credible poetic expression. In other words, what he wanted to get is not the future but aesthetic realities. In short, disappointed with colonial realities, he made poetic the symbols of illness and corruption. During the era of independence, he placed the love of nother above his own faith and chose to remove thought. It was a son’s natural choice who couldn’t deny the order of human beings represented by the meaning of mother. He couldn’t help taking the unnatural position of a man calling his mother under the umbrella of the red flag. Therefore, most of his poems written in this period contain internal complications to the situation of the time. His poetic consciousness came to have the frustrated appearance confronting new realities of the truth of self-criticism, which was a disturbance in internalizing the theories of communist. One of the main qualities found in Oh, Jang-hwan’s poetry in the era of independence is that there is criticism for the lack of tradition but it is not the negative mind against tradition. Although he insisted on the way of literature for human beings, he sang for abnormal life. This caused him to tend to the imperfection of thought and the poetic theory of tradition well shown in his political poems. He decreased the political burden by renewing the wealth of Kim, So-wol’s poems and, at the same time, checked his poetic area.

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