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Consciousness of Existence in Yu Chi-Hwan's Poetry through Body Expression

Ji-won,Lee 1

1충북대학교

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Yu Chi-Hwan aesthetically embodied his consciousness of existence with a focus on body. The aspect of body and consciousness of existence in Yu Chi-Hwan’s poetry can be classified broadly into the imprisoned body and the isolated consciousness of existence, the damaged body and the ego conflict, and the liberated body and the changeover of existence. Yu Chi-Hwan always noticed that all human bodies had to be tied on the surface of earth due to gravity. Although the imprisoned body was the initial point of limitation, it worked as an opportunity of making Yu Chi-Hwan provoke sensitive response to the limitation and jump over the limitation. The disease symptom or the pain of body is a direct and strong self-expression for the sensitive existence. Using the poet word of damaged body, the poet expressed the consciousness that all human beings had to be troubled with conflict since they are essentially existences with desire and beings with self-contradiction and duplicity. The collision between the lean body and the wing is a poetic method that shows the correlation between the conflict and the desire with a paradoxical esthetic sense. The consciousness of the poet pursuing the changeover of existence aims at getting out of gravity, namely the structure of vertical ascent. Escaping from the restriction of body and getting out of gravity mean getting away from the human world. Then the wing becomes an essential poetic method to liberate body and realize the changeover of existence. The proper province of the awareness of life that Yu Chi-Hwan seeks is characteristically placed beyond the point of the body limitation. It is a very interesting fact that the existence getting away from the human world gives shape to the true meaning of life. The relation between the life and the escape from human world which seems to be contradictory to each other at first glance is problematic, since it is outside the border of Saeng-myngpa dealing with humanity as key factor. This paper presents a new analysis of the esthetic achievement of Yu Chi-Hwan’s poetry by interpreting his poems with the view point of not only Saeng-myngpa but also body expression.

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