This study aims to empirically explore the literary life of Jung Jaewan, and examine the overall transformation process of the poetic world and the significance of literary practice through the analysis of imagination and semantic structure revealed i...
This study aims to empirically explore the literary life of Jung Jaewan, and examine the overall transformation process of the poetic world and the significance of literary practice through the analysis of imagination and semantic structure revealed in the poetic texts. In addition, it is meaningful to strengthen the research base and promote future follow-up researches in that there has been no comprehensive and systematic research on Jung Jaewan yet. As a method of research, the transformation process of Jung Jaewan's poetic world was divided into the early, mid, and late stages, and the general theme penetrating the poems of each period and its semantic structure were revealed.
Chapter II examines the poetic world until the early 1970s, which is a process of Jung Jaewan's experience of national liberation and 6.25 being revealed poetically. During this period, there was a tendency to flee to nature in his poems due to the unfavorable domestic situation. It was, moreover, characterized by striving to poetically practice criticism of social reality through nature and daily imagination with the process of ontological exploration through.
In Chapter III, as the poetic world from 1980s to 90s, which is the mid-term period, it dealt with not only the negative perception against social reality but also the desire for natural regression and the practice of love that resulted from the negative perception. In the early poetic world, there were characteristics that were thought through nature and daily life, and when it came to the mid-stage, it was seen that they were embodied and deepened through love for nature and the practice of truth. In Jung Jaewan's poems, it was examined that the desire of modern people to be happy through nature and love, and the moral practice in real life are building a pure world of nature.
Chapter IV, corresponding to the late-stage, discussed the process of Jung Jaewan's reflection on himself through literary practice in the 2000s. Based on the poems in posthumous collection, which he wrote after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and suffering from illness, it was identified the poetic meaning that he wanted to practice while achieving self-fulfillment and recognizing nature. In this period, the world of spiritual images predominated, which was leading to the meaning of death. It was also considered that he was deeply thinking about the problems of love and solitude at the crossroads of life.
At the end, the chronology of poet Jung Jaewan was organized, and the contents of the interview with his eldest daughter Jung Daun were recorded and contained as oral data. This is because it was intended to investigate Jung Jaewan's life through empirical data and bring to light the characteristics and significance of the poetic world for all his works.