[Feature] Poetry’s Quest for a Common World / Song Jong-won
The Quarterly Changbi 186, Winter 2019
Abstract
Song Jong-won reads poems that fight against the reality that makes the world even more alienated by making us harbor a mistrust for a common world. Finding keywords such as antagonism, solidarity, and response in the books of poems by Kim Sa-i, Kim Haeja, and Yi Seorya, respectively, this critical article captures various scenes in which intensive partiality, a characteristic specific to poetry, becomes an “effort to newly create a common sensibility,” by clutching at a certain “sharp fragment.” He argues that the most important achievement in the three books of poems is the fact that they became vehicles for a common world through poetic adventures, based on concrete sensibilities and images.