한하운 시 연구

Abstract

Unlike other studies that mostly examined the contents and forms of Han, Ha Un's poems, this study discussed factors such as the poet's life and environment other than his poems. That was because Han, Ha Un who had an illness called leprosy suffered his entire life more than any other poet. Therefore this study examined the relationship between his peculiar life and his works and intensively investigated the patterns of pains expressed in his poems and the way he treated them. Chapter three focused on analyzing the patterns of pains expressed in his poems after dividing them into two categories: the pain of self-torture and self-denial attributed to his illness of leprosy and the pain of feeling lost under turbulent conditions in his home country. This chapter examined how the patterns of his pains changed as the themes of his poems developed. It is obvious that his pains should be followed by the inference of the patterns of treatment of the pains. Therefore, chapter four intensively examined the patterns of treatment presented in his poems after dividing them into the following three categories: ‘treatment through poetry,' ‘treatment through self-conquest and transcendence,’ and ‘treatment through nature friendly life.’ The poet suffered from pains attributed to his illness, self-torture and self-denial, and the loss of his country, family, and lover, and tried to overcome and transcend such pains by writing poems. He also thought positively and lived nature friendly life to cope with his pains. Writhing poems and nature friendly life helped him both mentally and physically, leading him to overcome and transcend his pains. After all, poetry was not a mere object of aesthetic exploration for him. It was close to morality, the ultimate thing people seek entire their life. He began writing poems with the recognition that the tragedy of life was predestined. His poems are meaningful in that they express the willingness to overcome tragic reality.