The study of Kim Yo-seop's Poems relating to "imagination"

김요섭 시의 상상력 연구

The poems by Kim Yo-seop raise the completion degree of his embodied works through the clear sensuous beauty and dynamic imagination. The imagination which Kim's poems represent maintains the unification of sensibility, presenting markedly and merging together the impression of the contradistinctive world. His impression is condensed by the composition such as the contrast and fusion between red and white colors, and between horizontal and vertical worlds. Through this imagination, the poet seems to project the optimistic perception full of reconciliation and coexistence. Throughout the "light" image, while Kim Yo-seop projects the genesis of the universe and the eternity of its providence, he also projects the nobility of human spirit. They are projected on the base of the creation of the universe, God's words, reason as the archetypical symbolism of light. This indicates that the characteristics the imagination of Kim's poems shows are based on the mythical imagination. The spacial composition of the clear sense and the world of the mythical imagination are the main characteristics of the modernism. Thus, this thesis confirms that Kim Yo-seop's poems are the main harvest which enriches the extent and content of the modernism relating to Korean modern poems.