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Self-compassion and Mindfulness in Baek suk’s Poetry

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2014, (88), pp.199-224
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Kwak Myoungsuk 1

1아주대학교

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ABSTRACT

The compassion for the poor and the marginalized consistently appears in Baek suk’s poetry and is an important feature of his poetry. He emphasized the basic attitudes and feelings as a poet for whom the world and was the sorrow and compassion. Deer, his first collection of poems divided into his poetry. The early poems contained in deer are well exposed to the utmost compassion and in the later poems Baek Suk feels compassion towards yourself drawn. In this paper, by this time appearing to uncover patterns in relation to the speakers analyzed for compassion. After Deer, the internal speakers is projected to appear more, unlike during early childhood is gone. The persona and speaker match the poet, the poet appeared to the speaker. Thus, at the same time as changing the shape of the speaker when the speaker reviews the feelings of compassion toward gradually developed his own, and this aspect of self-compassion is transformed over time to go. First, it seems to lament the his own poverty and plight, but he generously understands about the positive aspects of world and himself, that is ‘self-kindness’. The persona admitted to another destination with a deep love and sympathy and compassion, solidarity, it is said soon realize that the poet’s vocation to be aware of a common humanity. And with respect to their situation as painful by accepting what mindfulness reaches out to realize it. Eventually without falling into negative ‘self-pity’ suffer from the negative as reaching out to rescue his will. These self-compassion and mindfulness of Baek suk can project a positive attitude of spiritual maturity and we need to revaluate such important qualities.

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