Kim Ki-lim is one of the modernists in the 1930's. His tatter poems refer to the ones written during the end of Japanese reign and immediately after the emancipation.
The characteristics of these are clearly shown in the fact that they adopted T. S. ...
Kim Ki-lim is one of the modernists in the 1930's. His tatter poems refer to the ones written during the end of Japanese reign and immediately after the emancipation.
The characteristics of these are clearly shown in the fact that they adopted T. S. Eliot's poetic techniques and they asserted the literature of human salvation on the basis of humanism influenced by Auden group.
After the emancipation, which confronted rapid social charge, he almost gave up modenism and wrote a lot of extreme ideological poems dealing with social problems. His social recognition and change of poetic viewpoints show enormous differences and contradiction when compared with the ones in his earlier poems.
It seems that he surely recognized these facts.
In spite of such situation, he was inclined to emphasize the recognition of national subjectivity and the relationship between literature and society through in historical impact of the emancipation.
In this thesis, these aspects of change in his literature were investigated through his latter poems.