This paper explores the sijo orthopedic style and its meaning through the contemporary sijo Buddhist aspects of the generation around the 1950s. In the history of contemporary sijo literature, sijo before and after the 1950s is evaluated as a pioneeri...
This paper explores the sijo orthopedic style and its meaning through the contemporary sijo Buddhist aspects of the generation around the 1950s. In the history of contemporary sijo literature, sijo before and after the 1950s is evaluated as a pioneering period of contemporary sijo. The development process of the modern sijo pioneering period occurred during the early period of the modern sijo in the 1910s and the search for the modern sijo in the 1920s and 40s. If the old form of ancestor sijo was removed along with the ‘Sijo Revival Movement’ conducted by Choi Namseon, Lee Eunsang, Lee Byeonggi and Jo Un in the 1920s, Sijo was established as a genre of contemporary literature during the pioneering period of sijo in the 1950s.
The contemporary literature, which was placed between the Japanese colonial period and the industrialization period, is composed of tradition and innocence, triggering a sharp confrontation along with the change of generations. At that time, the minority sijo poets experienced the period of the Japanese colonial period and liberation, and the crisis of existence in the tragedy and ruins of the Korean War, and opened their world view through the sijo literature in the 1950s. They defended Sijo as the nations only independent language and cultivated classical aesthetics and formal aesthetics. While accommodating the traditions adhered to in the period of the formation of modern sijo and pioneering period of contemporary sijo during the enlightenment period, anti-modern sijo change was sought. By observing the changes in life and the problems of the times through sijo, it reveals a variety of Buddhist thinking that has never existed before.
In order to examine the Buddhist consciousness in the before and after period in the 1950s based on previous research in this article, Chapter 2 examines the before and after period and sijo of the 1950s. In Chapter 3, we sought to classify the founders of the before and after generation and Buddhist consciousness into three categories. First, this study focused on a group of works formed in a similar format through the psalms composed of Buddhist thought in Sijo in the 1950s. Therefore, this article analyzed the Buddhist thoughts prominent in text psalms, such as natural causality, Buddhas representation, and the world of Indraman, by dividing them into short sijo, sequence sijo, and prose sijo in poetic style.
Studying on Buddhist consciousness of before and after generations focusing on sijo, the sijo poet of the text sijo, first, Lee Hou, Lee Yeongdo, Choi Seungbeom and Song Seonyeong for the short sijo and the natural causality, second, sequence sijo and Buddhas representation, Kim Sangok, Park Byungsoon, Lee Taeguk, prose sijo and the world of Indraman, Jeong Sopa, Jang Soonha, Park Kyungyong.
The sijo poets of the before and after generation in the 1950s who were examined in this way contributed to the revival of sijo by pursuing traditional consciousness as sijo amidst the frustration and ruins of the times. It preserves the ethnic sentiment in each ritual and manifests itself in combination with Buddhist reasons to inherit the zeitgeist. Buddhist consciousness, which appeared in a time of chaos and turbulence, operates realistically rather than transcendentally, and delves into existential problems.