류시화론 = A Study of Ryoo Si-hwa` poems

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Ryoo Si-hwa is a poet neglected by the literary circles, Although he is a poet who have a strong hold on the public, he is a contradictory poet dismissed from the critical circles, They ignored him, which will groan under a heavy burden that he is a poet receiving public support from the readers who are the first consumers, The reasons why he is not connected with reality, he is a writer who inclines toward lyric, or he is not good enough to appraise only by his two poetical works, are neither fair appraisal nor reasonable. Ryoo Si-hwa`s poetic world is aiming at sublimating cosmic ego through individual ego. His poem is a meditation poem. Meditation poem is a very strange genre in our literature history. There are many meditative poems, but there have been few ones which were pursued seriously. Symbolic words which appear in Ryoo Si-hwa`s poetic world are various. The images such as Star, Eye, Light have mutual relations with each other in a point of view that they are revelations coming down from above. The reasan is that the symbolic words like those have something in common that is a symbol of the ultimate existence. In a way, a butterfly as a theme is a symbol of transcendental consciousness out of life. The reason is that as a larva grows to be an adult insect called a butterfly, so he contrives to jump as a human being through his own mental mutation, His dreamy experience such as A man on the cloud and A guiding wolf` is a result of natural products emerging from a prophet-tempered mind. Ryoo Si-hwa is a writer who is searching for a paradise incessantly. And he is a poet who is eager to find all the things out of his own inside.