정일남 시 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the meaning of Jung Il-nam’s poems. Especially, sense of placeness and coal mine poems are the main subject of this paper. He can be referred to as problematic objects who shared converging and diverging points in looking into and understanding the problems of the field of regional literature reflected in poetry. This paper tries to apply the locality in broad sense to his poetic works based on the efforts to resist existence and attitude of aesthetic in various lights. An unconventional form, symbolical poetic words, and structural placeness are found only in Jung’s poems. Coal mine poems are not reserved exclusively for those who experienced coal mining. Nevertheless, genuine agents of coal mine poems should be coal mine workers and residents. This is the very reason why such poems should be ascribed to regional literature. It is deemed appropriate for such poems to focus on creating poetic images rather than depicting reality in an abstract way. Poetry communicates abstract sense through something specific, namely, images, rather than through abstraction. Jung’s view of poetry is characterized by regional attitude. The meaning of region can be called the spirit of lyricism, and Jung’s poems are the typical showcase of it. The good examples are poetic attributes as the spirit of the undetermined native place. And his sense of hometown and nature based on the life is a symbol of locality. The simple formality deriving from Jung’s lyricism is sometimes accompanied by the lack of aesthetic realms. Nonetheless, his spirit and works prove our centralized surroundings and the typical pattern of living in unreasonable modern times by performing effects.