[Feature] The Reality Overcoming the Dissociated Senses / Song Jong-won
The Quarterly Changbi 174, Winter 2016
Abstract
Song Jong-won submits his analysis of the recent poems by Hwang In-chan and Kim Jung-hwan, and discusses the characteristics of the poetic reality the two poets have constructed, respectively. Despite the enormous poetic potentialities teeming with dissociated senses, Hwang's poems are estimated to fall short of the efforts to put the heterogeneous elements of life together. In contrast, Kim Jung-hwan succeeds in his attempts to encounter and encompass the historical, by the expansion of time-space horizons in his poems. It is the thematic awareness of the interrelation between poetry and the poetic reality that made it possible to discuss the two contrasting poets, different both in tendencies and in generation.