Baek Suk is a poet who had a vigorous literary activity until the early 1940'es since he announced "Jung Joo Sung" on Cho Sun Il Bo in 1935. Despite of his literary aspect only after the lifting action of the literary men in north korea or kidnapped t...
Baek Suk is a poet who had a vigorous literary activity until the early 1940'es since he announced "Jung Joo Sung" on Cho Sun Il Bo in 1935. Despite of his literary aspect only after the lifting action of the literary men in north korea or kidnapped to the north. His poems had a shape of story-poem to describe characters and events compressively to develop. His story poems, by excluding the speaker's subjectivity, limited the distance between the poetic contents and the reader, and evoked tension and vividness. And also, he melted the anger or hostility on the reality deep into his poems to show the consciousness of a community bound together as the subject to live together that an individual never can be separated from the society, In addition, in the deveoping way of a story, he drew usual terms in his poems to bring simplicity and sincerity that had a full of the oder of life as well as the local sorrow. In the poems of Baek Suk, an attitude to criticise or admire the irrational factors inherent within the capitalistic life style like the extinction of communication or the tough emotions of life and the ecological view of nature, taking rural districts and nature as the suvject. His poems were closely connected to Imagism that needs precism and accurate description. He excluded the subhectivity and displayed clearly various images like the senses of eyesight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and space just with exluding the subjectivity and keeping the distance with the things, The imagism of the poems of Baek Suk may be divided into oriental world of a virtual image to show the beauty of space contemplatively, the realistic world to show the beauty of space contemplatively, the realistic world to show impressively the way of the existences estranged from the socialistic life and culture just with keeping a certain distance with the understanding of the outside reality and the world of vivid natural features to draw the materials he had seen and heard in his trips into his poems to revive.
Depending on a theme, you can divide the contents fo the poems of Baek Suk into the
following 4 kinds. First as the salient characteristics, his poems revealed the return to
the mythological times. Second, in the dreams of the restoration for the loss of utopia, it
the poems to retrospect childhood is connected to the identification to search the pure
soul of the past, the maternal world - oriented poems or the female - worshiping
poems were for melting the pains and consciousness of defeat into the maternal world
to console the inner side of spilt self. Third, Baek Suk's search for the utopia was more
strengthened through the trips. His trips were a process and will to realize the
indentification with the utopia.
Fourth, Baek Suk made an effort to materialize into the poems the features of the poor
and isolated people he had met during the process of searching for the utopia.
Seeing the stylistic principles shown in the poems of Baek Suk, in a phonological layer,
he showed the speaker's mental uneasiness or strong emotions with using a hinderde
sound, and revealed the speaker's bright and sound mentality wity using a relaxed like
soft sound.
In a morphologic layer, he emphasized the material values as the historical linguistics
through the use of a dialect and also stressed the statement through the repetition of a
particle or a suffix. In adition, in the morphologic layer showed a typical characteristics
for a sentence to be repeated in a same pattern or similarly.
The form of conversation can be classified into the form of inside-oriented speaker, the
form of observation-oriented speaker and the form of outside-oriented speaker. The
inside-oriented speaker shows an effort to come to his orginal existence by reflecting
his own existential existence onto himself, or an effort to oxercome the doubts or
uneasiness aroused by the outside environments. The inside-oriented speaker tries to
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