The poems You Chihwan, Cheongma in alias, wrote in the later part of his deals mainly with the meaning of God and human existence. Although God is seen as that of Christianity in Cheongma's poems, he doesn't have nay image of the Absolute, who can sal...
The poems You Chihwan, Cheongma in alias, wrote in the later part of his deals mainly with the meaning of God and human existence. Although God is seen as that of Christianity in Cheongma's poems, he doesn't have nay image of the Absolute, who can salvage humans. Without salvation, humans remain helpless beings. The God who has no power to salvage humans represents a secularized divinity. Paradoxically, secularized divinity is expressed as the sanctification of the secular.
Negative perceptions on God lead to an introspection on the human's current life, as a result of which humans realize the true meaning of existence. In Cheongma's poems, the existential image of sanctified nature and Mother Terra is evident. In addition, the meaning of will-power to overcome such helplessness appear in his poems. In so doing, Cheongma tries to provide an image not only of the absolute death, but also of the real live of humans.