김종삼의 시적 정의(正義)

Abstract

This paper aims to reveal the ‘poetic justice’ that Kim Jong-sam’s poetry embodies. The path from the emotion of sympathy implied in Kim Jong-sam's poem to public power was captured and analyzed as a 'virtuous cycle of sympathy'. We paid attention to the fact that ‘empathy’ revealed in the work becomes a pivot point for converting negative emotions such as loss and deprivation into tolerance, and as a result, the influence of empathy contributes to public judgment. The fact that sympathy forms the core of Kim Jong-sam's poetic world is that his life was aligned with the face of a painful other in the turbulent times of liberation, national division, and war. The virtuous cycle of sympathy, which is the driving force of Kim Jong-sam's poetry, is the context of poetic imagery that captures the shabby reality in the wretchedness of the times, and at the same time, his poetic pursuit through the course of the poem. This paper focuses on the path of sympathy that stands out in Kim Jong-sam's poem, and attempts to reveal the poet's vocation and poetic direction as he realizes it.