This study aims to examine the possibilities of poetry writing education based on building relationships with the Other, grounded in the assumption that writing poems through emotions and reflections triggered by the Other can enhance learners’ ethi...
This study aims to examine the possibilities of poetry writing education based on building relationships with the Other, grounded in the assumption that writing poems through emotions and reflections triggered by the Other can enhance learners’ ethical and aesthetic expressive abilities.
In literature education, creative writing has primarily functioned to satisfy learners’ expressive desires. However, confining the essence and educational significance of poetry writing solely to self-expression risks overlooking the multilayered and relational nature inherent in poetry, thereby reducing the essence of the genre itself. Since human beings are fundamentally constituted through relationships with the Other, the creative subject likewise needs to be understood not as the possessor of an isolated inner self but as an entity that thinks and speaks relationally.
To examine poetry writing based on building relationships is to explore how poetic meaning emerges and is amplified depending on what the creative subject relates to and how such relationships are formed. In this context, building relationships with the Other constitutes an event in which the subject’s selfhood is disrupted and penetrated by the otherness of the Other. Through relationships with others, poetry writing moves beyond the conventional order of self-centered lyricism, responding to the voice of the Other and seeking possibilities for solidarity. Poetry writing based on building relationships with the Other is structured through encounters with concrete the Other, utterance as response, and other-oriented writing.
The principles of poetry writing based on building relationships with the Other consist of the construction of representations of the Other according to the scope of recognition, the positioning of the poetic persona according to relational distance, and the generation of poetic expression through engagement with the Other’s language. Through these principles, poetry writing education can attain educational significance in overcoming solipsistic creative conventions, forming relational subjectivity, realizing artistic experiences that render building relationships with the Other meaningful, and deepening ethical and aesthetic expressive abilities grounded in respect for the otherness.
Based on these principles, this study designed and implemented poetry writing activities grounded in building relationships with the Other and examined learners’ poetry writing processes and outcomes. First, poetic conception and representation according to the scope of other-recognition revealed patterns of concrete recognition of individual others and the reproduction of specific situations, the expansion of recognition and the representation of groups of others, and the discovery of universal problem consciousness from a macroscopic perspective. Second, the exploration of poetic persona positioning and utterance through distance adjustment revealed patterns of speaking on behalf of the Other at an intimate distance, addressing and dialoguing with the Other at a proximate distance, and observing the Other and the world from a distant perspective. Third, the generation of poetic expression through the acceptance and transformation of the Other’s language revealed patterns of direct appropriation of the Other’s language and conventional expressions, the creation of images and metaphors through the transformation of the Other’s language, and the deepening of expressive conciseness through ethical and aesthetic examination. Fourth, the problematic situations and causes in poetry writing based on building relationships with the Other were identified as the limited construction of representations of the Other due to superficial recognition, the fixation of solipsistic creative conventions and difficulties in relational transformation, and insufficient ethical and aesthetic examination stemming from the unfamiliarity of poetry writing.
The goals of poetry writing education based on building relationships with the Other are, first, to cultivate a sense of ethical responsibility through other-centered poetic conception; second, to explore the possibilities of relational poetry writing through the positioning of the poetic persona; and third, to enhance poetic expressive abilities through ethical and aesthetic examination. To achieve these goals, it is necessary to establish educational content that includes poetic conception through the recognition of the Other, the positioning of the poetic persona and planning of utterance according to relational distance, and the metaphorical imaging of the Other’s language and the generation of poetic expression. Such education can be realized through the exploration of multimedia materials related to the Other for poetic conception, dramatic experiences for adjusting distance and positioning the poetic persona, the step-by-step deepening of metaphorical images through the acceptance of the Other’s language, and the examination and revision of poetic works through peer feedback.
This study analyzed poetic texts produced through learners’ building relationships with the Other as well as all textual materials generated during the poetry writing process as analytical data, with the aim of identifying and concretizing the processes through which poetry writing occurs, along with poetic conception, planning, and expression originating from the Other. Through this analysis, the study holds significance in proposing the educational potential of poetry writing education based on building relationships with the Other.