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The Life thought of ‘A Black Mountain’ in the Poems of Kim, Ji-ha －Focused on A Black Mountain and a White Room－

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2013, (85), pp.339-361
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Seoksoon Kweon 1

1강원대학교

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ABSTRACT

Kim Ji-ha's collection of poems titled A Black mountain and a White room 1- Part 2 ‘A Black mountain-in the Mooreung Valley’ sets a scene in Mt. Doo-ta, Donghae Si, Gangwon-Do. 13 poems in the collection are significant in the sense that Kim Ji-ha first captured the literary space after leaving prison in December, 1980, and they were not adjusted, touched and polished off by his dictation. Kim Ji-ha who was a symbol of a fighter for democracy, and experienced existent extremes of ‘passing’ and ‘killing’ approaches the history of horrible pains and passing in the Mooreung Valley, Mt. Doo-ta through an anarchic viewpoint of the sense of Nihil and resistance in the Part 2. Facing the crippled history offetters, Kim Ji-ha showed the aspect of the will to overcome them and pledge, for he wrote poems with not an idea of Mt. Doo-ta but its vitality. For Kim Ji-ha, the history of killing is only not to move away from the human world. The poet’s will that he can be born again as a real being emerges as a poetic diction of ‘water’ in the end of many poems. ‘Water’ represents the life thought that has to experience when the blood history in the Mooreung Valley, Mt. Doo-ta is converted into a new being. Thus, ‘water’ is a manifestation of vitality that Kim Ji-ha aims. The present being for returning to the life represents the life thought that has to experience when the blood history in the Mooreung Valley, Mt. Doo-ta is converted into a new being. Kim Ji-ha condenses a solution to the sad history of Mt. Doo-taand further of Korea as ‘the wave of life.’ This is in direct contact with his opinion that a confrontation between killing and saving is the life movement. He who desires a freedom of transcendental world meditates the meaning of life through ‘Black mountain’ after experiencing death. This life thought is to care about the life of the community beyond looking after oneself. As people are a living being, life has a wish, and they experience the polishing of life for the wish. In short, Kim Ji-ha's collection of poems titled A Black mountain and a White room 1- Part 2 ‘A Black mountain-in the Mooreung Valley’ that sets a scene in Mt. Doo-ta is significant in the sense that they reflect the poet’s trace of suppressed life, and Mt. Doo-ta is a captured space in atime of tribulation of our generation. Moreover, Kim Ji-ha's poems about Mt. Doo-ta are important, because they are in direct contact withthe life movement that he has consistently pursued.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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