리영 리의 아버지 찾기의 시학
The Father-Seeking Poetics of Li-Young Lee
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This study aims to look into Li-Young Lee’s father-seeking poetics by analyzing poems in Rose and The City in Which I Love You. Focusing on how Lee recalls his father and meets with Whitman and Emerson, two literary fathers of American literature, the study will show that Lee tries to secure the foundation of his identity and then expand his poetic perspectives by communicating with them. As a source of life piercing through his body, Lee’s familial father binds the poet to the world in “Dreaming of Hair.” The poet inherits the behavior of tenderness from his father in “The Gift.” Lee’s father also gives the poet the opportunity to confront himself losing connection to his ethnic origins in “Persimmons.” In “Eating Alone,” however, Lee accepts the absence of his familial father and prepares for his poetic journey of self-reliance. In “The Cleaving,” Lee expands his identity beyond ethnic and cultural boundaries. The poet feels a sense of solidarity with a Chinese-American butcher and expands it towards the entire Chinese race. Following Whitman’s praise of the human body and love for all human beings, Lee enumerates facial and bodily features of Chinese people and feels love for them. The poet also embraces Emerson’s transcendental idea of interconnectedness in spite of his racial prejudice against Chinese people. In the end, Lee endeavors to amalgamate his ethnic heritage and American literary tradition to enlarge his poetic world.
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This study aims to look into Li-Young Lee’s father-seeking poetics by analyzing poems in Rose and The City in Which I Love You. Focusing on how Lee recalls his father and meets with Whitman and Emerson, two literary fathers of American literature, the study will show that Lee tries to secure the foundation of his identity and then expand his poetic perspectives by communicating with them. As a source of life piercing through his body, Lee’s familial father binds the poet to the world in “Dreaming of Hair.” The poet inherits the behavior of tenderness from his father in “The Gift.” Lee’s father also gives the poet the opportunity to confront himself losing connection to his ethnic origins in “Persimmons.” In “Eating Alone,” however, Lee accepts the absence of his familial father and prepares for his poetic journey of self-reliance. In “The Cleaving,” Lee expands his identity beyond ethnic and cultural boundaries. The poet feels a sense of solidarity with a Chinese-American butcher and expands it towards the entire Chinese race. Following Whitman’s praise of the human body and love for all human beings, Lee enumerates facial and bodily features of Chinese people and feels love for them. The poet also embraces Emerson’s transcendental idea of interconnectedness in spite of his racial prejudice against Chinese people. In the end, Lee endeavors to amalgamate his ethnic heritage and American literary tradition to enlarge his poetic world.
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