한국 현대시단에 나타난 『주역』

Abstract

This paper explored how the Book of Changes can communicate with the public and what role it can play through the analysis of how the Book of Changes has been dealt with in modern Korean poetry. Contemporary poetry, which is intended to be covered in this paper, targets poetry books, prose books, and commentary books published by modern Korean poets in the 2010-2020s, especially focusing on the works of Jang Seok-ju, Lee Young-shin, Oh Jung-hwan and Ahn Soo-hwan. This paper explores how the difficulty of the Book of Changes, which is often considered a major obstacle to understand, is understood and interpreted by poets. In particular, the symbols of the Book of Changes let poets experience meeting the object with an open mind away from their ignorance, prejudice, and stereotypes, and in the process, the symbols of it were organically linked to each other and expanded to a new meaning about our daily lives and relationships. Next, this paper analyzes whether the principle of the Book of Changes can still have a meaning for the public in contemporary culture. In modern Korean poetry, it has been examined that the principles of the Book of Changes are embodied as “body” poems that lead to new reflections on life crisis, life, and death in the process of experiencing with the poet's “body”, suggesting poetic sensitivity as a part of great vitality in the principle of organic circulation.