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Study on the Authentic Precedent in Yi-Sang’s Early Poem, ‘Mr. Cha8’s Departure(且8氏의 出發)’ and the Dual Structure of Modernity

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ABSTRACT

This Study tries to interpretate one of Yi-Sang’s early poems, ‘Mr. Cha8’s departure’(「且8氏의 出發」). In the meanwhile, one verse in the poem, ‘a wheel doesn't roll’(‘輪不輾地’), is thought as the direct quotation from Jang-ja(『莊子』) by a lot of researchers. In fact, Yi-sang quoted that verse from Fuyue Anzai’s poem, ‘Year 1927,’(in Shitoshiron 『詩と詩論』6, 1930), not from Jang-ja(『莊子』). This fact could be checked with confirming the similarity of the deformating that verse in Yi-sang’s poem and Anzai’s poem. Anzai wrote ‘Year 1927’ motivated by the event which the german airship, Graf Zeppelin(‘Z伯號’) arrived at Tokyo through the Europe-Asia continent in 1929(Zeppelin achieved a world travel through Tokyo). At that time, the arrival of Zeppelin affected the mental attitude of most of Japaneses to the western modernity. Many japanese poets wrote poems about Zeppelin’s arrival and achievement with the emotion of jealousy and hope. Anzai’s poem also suggests the despair of japanese to western machine civilization and the mental triumph with old oriental philosophy. The verse in the poem, ‘a wheel doesn’t roll’(‘輪不輾地’) is quoted just as such a context. Most importantly, Yi-sang also possibly quoted the verse in the same context from Anzai’s that poem. Yi-sang already wrote a word Zbaekho(“Z 伯號” ; it is an abbreviation for Graf. Zeppelin.) in a poem, ‘AU MAGASIN DE NOUVEAUTES’. If so, there is a new way to analyse Yi-sang’s difficult poem, ‘Mr. Cha8’s departure’(「且8氏의 出發」). Yi-sang proposes new survival method against western machine civilization represented by Zeppelin through that poem. That method is ‘digging’. Like Dostoyevsky’s ‘underground liver’, Yi-sang felt tired of modern civilization. He criticized the duplicity of the western modernity providing despair and hope to the people in asia.

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