Recently, into Korea archetyal criticism and myth criticism from Europe, especially from England and America have been brought and it is in the course of settlement. For the sake of these criticisms, an evaluation only on the works should be eliminate...
Recently, into Korea archetyal criticism and myth criticism from Europe, especially from England and America have been brought and it is in the course of settlement. For the sake of these criticisms, an evaluation only on the works should be eliminated, and the impression and effects from the works also should be resisted, and also only the archetypal elements must be abstracted, after the additional elements in the works being eliminated.
In her book, "Archetypal Patterns in Poetry, 1934, Maud Bodkin seeks answers in the patterns of regeneration, such as rest, march, stop and movement through the image of wind in the poems of Dante G. Rosseti, Emile Verharem," and S.T. Coleridge.
Bodkin took examples of the patterns of regeneration in Mrs. Dallemay, 1925, written by V. Woolf, but also in a classical nevel of Korea, "Sashi Namchonggi," we can find that sort of examples.
Many patterns of regeneration can be found in the modern poems of Korea, for instance: "Nim ui Chimmuk (Silence of My love), and "Alsoo Opsuhyo (No way to know)," by Han Yong Un; "Yolmae(Seeds)," by Kim Yun Sung; "Padaka Naeke Mutnun Mal (The Words The Sea Asks Me),"
"Nabi(Butterfly)" by Yoo Kyong Whan; "Bisang(The Afterward of Flying)," by Lee Jae-Chul; a long poem, "The Love of Miss C.J.S., "by Lee Jung Ki. Poet Lee Jung Ki received influence in many ways, especially by the work, "The Waste Land," by T.S. Eliot.
In Korean classical poetry many themes concerns various trees such as pinetree, willow, etc., and flowers such as peech blosom, plum tree, chrysanthemum, etc., and also concerns butterfly, rock, stream, cloud, birds, sun, moon, sky, dragon, forest, and so on as the examples of archetypal images. Water image is a symbol of inconstancy and eternity, and among the primitive folkore it symbolize the regneration of death as well as generating power, "productivity," Water is used as moral simile in Taeism, Buddhism, and Confuncianism.
The image of mirror symbolizes self-discovery and self-recognition of the characteristic which is "the reflection of objects." In the ancient folkore the mirror was used as a means of cateptremanly.
Archetypal criticism has some problems in itself: firstly it has some defects of separation of the real meaning from poetry; secondly it has problems to be solved for the cause, of interrelated mutual influence between images; thirdly it also has problems for the image interpretations which is not merely simple but complex.