Kim Soweol was famous as a poet whose work deals with issues of both national and traditional sentiment. Although he worked under the harsh realities of Japanese colonialism he attempted to both reflect and transcend these realities. The result is as ...
Kim Soweol was famous as a poet whose work deals with issues of both national and traditional sentiment. Although he worked under the harsh realities of Japanese colonialism he attempted to both reflect and transcend these realities. The result is as follows.
I'll call them the poems of inclination towards anticolonialism. These poems have been studied partially. Some of the poems deal with the issues of Utopianism, others deal with the harsh realities of homelessness. While other poems have a tendency to promote nationalism. Aims at Utopia are analyzed through the poems; 「엄마야 누나야」(Mother, Sister), 「바다」(Sea), 「산 위에」 (On the Mountain). The distinctive feature is setting up the space like the riverside, the sea, the village where the lover is, where the being of maternity exists as Utopia. There appears an aspect of his inclination of feminism, and that is the way against Japanese masculine fascism.
His poems, which present 'House Complex', don't only mean the yearnings toward home but also, further, is connected with the absence of the country, the house of the people. His poems, which present 'House Complex', don't only mean the yearnings toward home but also, further, is connected with the absence of the country, the house of people. The work, 「바라건대는 우리에게 우리의 보습 대일 ?이 잇섯드면」(For mercy's sake, if we had the earth we could plow) holds up a true mirror to the fact.
Soweol sang the poems which make Chosun stand directly and present love of our country. Nationalism is revealed in them. In some of these poems, Soweol expresses optimism for the future. Also, this is connected with Confucian Ideas which is based on belief, probity, and unchanged affections. Although the poems which present love of his country weren't published, they can be evaluated as the great works which historic significance is included in.