日帝强占期 殉國 絶命詩의 意味와 轉變

Abstract

There were numerous patriotic deaths for self-purification for expressing the wills to follow the country’s fate by taking own life all over the country after the national humiliation losing the sovereignty on Aug. 29, 1910. At the time, the intellectuals couldn’t help watching the loss of sovereignty. They might feel tremendous sense of helplessness and loss as the people of ruined country as if they became the sympathizer of the collapse of the country. They couldn’t help making the extreme selection that was patriotic death. Such people wrote the patriotic death poems when they determined the patriotic death or the execution was determined. Even though they faced the death with the sadness which they couldn’t see the liberation of their country, they resolutely selected the death beyond the fear on death and enhanced their resolution on the desperate resistance. Furthermore, it is remarkable that the patriotic death poems borrowed the rhyming words from other poems especially during the late Joseon period. Those poems borrowed the rhyming words from the famous patriotic death poems written in the previous period or those written by patriots dying for the country. When a number of people changed their names into Japanese names for success in their life, those who wrote patriotic death poems changed their pen names or nick names after changing their names into Japanese names. It was a positive resistance to the filthy world. A number of patriots selected death as throwing their life away like a grass.