Kim Jong Sam, born in 1921, had lived a poet for a little over 30 years to die in December 1984. He presented a unique form in poems and came to realize a subject in the way of his own through two anthologies co-worked with other poet and his three in...
Kim Jong Sam, born in 1921, had lived a poet for a little over 30 years to die in December 1984. He presented a unique form in poems and came to realize a subject in the way of his own through two anthologies co-worked with other poet and his three individual poetic works.
The purpose of this study investigates the dominant feelings of Kim Jong Sam which are underlaid deeply in his poetry and attempts to analyze definately the characteristic of his poetic sphere, relating to its skill and image.
The uniqueness of his poem consists in the deviation from the routine context. The abbreviation of poetic words, the leap of meanings and the arrangement of chinese letter have brought the effect that extended the poetic reverberation. These kinds of imperfection and breakup are not only the consideration with a view to the structural uniqueness but also the poetic devices which construct the world of poet's own who lost the present world.
Kim's starting point of poetry can be said the consciousness of death. For him death is embodied as an agony of ego that cannot harmonize with his present, and He wanted to find out an object to cure the disharmonies between the actual life and ideal life. While these binary fact have led a poetic dualism.
In the history of modern korean poetry, the importance of Jong Sam Kim's poetry can be found in his attempts to overcome the nihilism and ideality, which was a dominant trend during the 1950s and 1960s because of the experience of Korean War.