이성선 시 연구 - 지역성의 관점을 중심으로 -

초록

For about thirty years, Lee Seong-seon has written his poems through the reflection on nature. His poems carry locality: they demonstrate the fact that literature mirrors human lives. They also seek for the aesthetic values and the meaning of life through the spatial images, which are revealed in his view of literature. Lee’s poems show the various levels of the consciousness of the hometown. The hometown in his poems has the variation. This space,which is the place of his literary life and activities, forms the web of the essential meanings of his poems. Mt. Seorak and the East Sea repetitively appear as the two of the representative spatial images. Eco-poetry is characterized mainly by its eco-centrism, its humble appreciation of wildness, a skepticism toward hyper-rationality and over-reliance on technology, and others. In addition, we are repeatedly reminded of the theme hometown, looking into the ideal nature of his poems. As can be seen here, Lee’s sense of regional life is an ecosystem in itself. The eco-friendly life in the local area, the short-poems expressing the ‘placeness’, and the formation of the field of regional literature emerge as the practical aspects. The locality is the significance of Lee’s poems in the history of the Korean literature.

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