Ki, hyung-do has been imprinted his image on our heart as a young man in late twenties and has received incessant attention by readers and literary critics until now since his work, 'black leaf in mouth' was published as his left collection of poems. ...
Ki, hyung-do has been imprinted his image on our heart as a young man in late twenties and has received incessant attention by readers and literary critics until now since his work, 'black leaf in mouth' was published as his left collection of poems. Until now, the researches on Ki, hyung-do's work have connected it with his accident death so the main opinion about him was that his world of poem 'revealed biased view towards the death based on negative recognition of reality'.
In fact, the tragedy tendency his works are showing connected with his death so it gave him the name of tragedy poet meanspirited with death. We can not deny that this aspect worked as a factor to increase attention to his works by connecting with readers' and literary critics' dramatic imagination. However we also must not ignore that his various accomplishment with the works did not receive proper evaluation by this fact.
Arriving at 1980s, there were populace literature and participation literature as a main stream with the development of racial and democratic movement. Then the works, which were not belonged to those frames, sometimes were ignored or distorted. The reason why both literary critics of populace literary and the opposite sites in 1980s did not pay attention to him rightly and not discover his accomplishment properly were that his coping way and message on reality had different frame from that of those main literarypart not just that he was 'the poet of death and tragedy'. However in each his work, there is internal recognition on periodic status in 1980s and his attitude to ruminate those days of dark incessantly.
Therefore this study will disentangle the story about '1980s and Ki, hyung-do' that has not been dealt by the restricted image about his poem or approach to his poem until now. For this purpose I paid attention to his own sensibility that penetrates his complete collection with 97 works that is made by 16 cherish collection of works and 20 non-published poems for 5th anniversary. And I would pay attention to his own sensibility and discuss his works that were made from his sensibility with the periodic status of 1980s.