시 창작에서 ‘자아 구축’의 이해와 그 적용 = Understanding of self-construction in poetry writing and its application

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This study is intended for poetry writers as its primary audience and understands the aesthetics of poetic creation to lie not in the representation of the self but in the construction of the self. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how such a poetics of self-construction is applied in the actual process of writing poetry. For this purpose, a college creative writing class was selected as the research subject, and case analyses were carried out to examine whether the poetry writers experienced the process of self-construction during the course. The class was conducted as a poetry-writing course that began with the analysis of autobiographical poems by established poets to study their writing techniques, which students then applied to their own poetry. As a result, it was confirmed that poetry, traditionally understood as an expression of the self, can be reinterpreted as a process of constructing the self. In addition, the fluidity of the self was analyzed through the poetic device of the “Persona.” Ultimately, through this course, the writers came to understand that discovering one’s true inner self, achieving a better self, or expressing one’s emotions beautifully or strangely in refined language to seek empathy from others constitutes only a part, not the entirety, of poetic creation. Accordingly, this study aims to present an experimental theory that enables writers to perceive poetry as a genre of adventure and challenge in constructing unfamiliar selves, thereby allowing them to actively pioneer the modes of existence and destiny of poetry.