Abstract

This paper analyzed the response to war violence and the problem of poetic embodimenting against war violence on the subject of the poetry work of Jeon Bong-gun. The response to war violence and poetic embodiment patterns have four tendencies from time to time. First, the poetry that deals with direct war experience shows a poetic strategy of keeping one''s distance from physical violence and spontaneously materializing oneself. The materialization of the poetic subject shows a cross-section of war violence that tool humans. It also shows the will of a poetic entity not to be engulfed in cultural violence, such as ideological slogans and propaganda. Second, right after the war, the works began to evoke the tragedy of the war, revealing their will to overcome death. Jeon''s favorite phrase, Hang-a-ri, symbolizes eroticism and vitality that transcends death. Eroticism evokes a life of overflowing in sensuality. It is a source of overcoming death and an opportunity to restore the unspoilt human vitality caused by the cultural violence caused by the war. Third, Chun Bong-gun expressed the trauma of the war by venting his own sorrow, a separated family. The self-explanatory incitement of the grief and longing of those who lost their homes is evidence of a structural reproduction of the war violence that does not go away even after the ceasefire. At the same time, they show their willingness to overcome the injury by confronting it. Finally, the 6.25 was reconstructed in a series of poems. We, which appeared as a poetic subject in this work, shows a sense of solidarity that the tragedy of war is that of all members of the Korean Peninsula. “We” are the party sharing the scene of tragedy, the poet in the position of witness, and the person who testifies to the war. As a testimony, the 6.25 is a generation that experienced war, reflecting the ethical duty of the war leader to talk about the violence and tragedy of war. The wartime period of war in Jeon-bongun is beyond the logic of the wartime system and the limits of the divisional system. His work advocates universal human existence with a will to live, and reveals a sense of counter-war and a tendency toward peace.

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