정현종 초기 시의 역동적 상상력

Abstract

Jeong Hyeon-jong’s early poetry showcases a unique and rich imagination, which can be explained by Bachelard’s imagination theory. This theory presents the fusion and change between elements in the material dimension beyond the formal image. The ascending imagination, which is prominent in early poetry, is expressed as a leap in dance and a “bounce-up” in everyday life. It also extends to the birth of life in the state of nothingness and its growth. The images of descent revealed in the early poems of Jeong Hyeon-jong are descending in form. Nevertheless, in the material dimension, they are descending with the will of ascending and correspond to reverse ascending. When the fusion between substances exits the sensory nature of the object and enters a completely different area, a new image is created. This is the result of dynamic imagination, which is both a pure desire and a mental force itself. Jeong Hyeon-jong’s poetry illustrates the stage of “La valorisation” that leads to dynamic imagination through morphological and material imagination. This is the same as explaining the general process in which poetry is created by the action of imagination.