백무산 시 연구

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A Study on Baek Mu-san’s poems This article examines the transformational process of Back Mu-san’s poetry. His poems delineate how literature has transformed itself since the 1980s. Their literature solution originating from the ‘combative realism’ may be an example and his recent attempts made on the basis of traditional ideology and imagination of plant have become the conditions for the 1980s and another kind of marketability. Many have tended to reflect on the bygone era and the entire human history, as if following the fashion, and the future defined by such tendency exists in the world of Back Mu-san’s poetry. His poems pursue new ontological roads or a border in-between. The ‘border’ in his poems creates and removes a border and is in itself a ‘road’ between borders. What underlies his poems are not only a recognition of human beings and capital, but also that of the limitations inherent in a modern life and the attempts to overcome such limitations. It thus appears that his ‘road’ points both to a political action and the location where the interior world makes itself explicit. His reflection on language can also be seen to represent a resistance on the part of lyric poetry against the rising power of discourse. The lyricism reflected in his poems shows a variety of experimental attempts to negate ideology and power through language and nature. A more serious reflection on Baek Mu-san’s poems may be closely associated with the poet’s new life. His life course in which he sublated himself can be regarded as a distinctive mark left in the history of Korean poetry since the 1990s. Such a committed poetic attitude has in it a authenticity which parallels any theoretical pursuits made in the field of literary discourse. The limitations of his poems, however, can also be found in the same context. His poems may leaves theories behind, but the possibility of repetition and stagnation remains.

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