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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.30 pp.245-265
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2008.30.245

Korean Poetry Through W. B. Yeats:Kim Chunsoo and Kim Jonggil

Rhee Young Suck

Abstract

The paper searches parallels between English and Korean poetry as representedby Kim Chunsoo and Kim Jonggil, two of modern and contemporary poets inrelation to W. B. Yeats. It clarifies the validity of such a comparative study byshowing the interrelationship in the visual art, for it is there physically to see, asexemplified by the giving and receiving of Picasso and Matisse through their works.
Even though it is not that easy in poetry, it is nevertheless possible to relatesuch relationship in it. Yeats has been a great influence on English and Americanpoets; and a large number of researches and studies have been done. But Yeats hasnot been compared with Korean poets, in part because Korean and English aretotally different languages. But as this study has shown, this kind of study couldgive benefits to both scholars and writers as well.
This paper selects two of Kim Chunsoo’s early poems to compare with Yeats’sparallels. The fact is, Yeats’s poems seem to have had influence on the early Kim.Kim's poetry is different, though. What we could benefit from this study is thatKorean poets need not worry about influences from great foreign poets.Understanding foreign language poetry helps Korean poets enrich their own poetryby learning what their true self is, what language Korean is; Kim must havelearned that from reading Yeats.
The paper takes and analyzes Kim Jonggil in relation with Yeats. Kim Jonggilis different from Kim Chunsoo; Kim Jonggil teaches Yeats and other poets inEnglish. But what interests me is he is far different from other Korean poets. Heseems to have transcended foreign influences, not to mention that he has outgrownYeats and other English poets. Two of Kim’s poems are elaborated in relation with Yeats’s. I deal with Kim’s supreme poem with one of Yeats’s best. Kim’s qualitycompares well with Yeats’s, but his poetry itself is different from Yeats’s.

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