Animal image dominates the city that is the core and background of Choi, Seung-ho's poems. This paper studied about such a city and focused on the creation process of grotesque animal image. Unpredictable and active metaphors and metonymys in Frames o...
Animal image dominates the city that is the core and background of Choi, Seung-ho's poems. This paper studied about such a city and focused on the creation process of grotesque animal image. Unpredictable and active metaphors and metonymys in Frames of Reference from B. Hrushovski and Spatial Metaphor from M. C. Haley were used in order to analyze 「Dried Pollack」, 「Bus which has advertisement」 and 「I am breathing」, Choi, Seung-ho's three poems.
In his poems, space represents the space of death. Animals in that space show transformation to Dried Pollack and again to fish tough metonymy. At the same rime, those grotesque animals are treated metaphorically the same as man. Therefore, man becomes tragic existence who doesn't even realize being locked in a breathless space. Moreover, every artificial thing, created by man but now threats his freedom, turns out to be the reason of the space of death. Ultimately, those poems alert man living an automated city life through metaphorical and metonymical creation and transformation process.