A Study on the Lyric Spirit for Education of Lyricism
Goo, Young-san
Seoul National University
Korean Language Education Research Vol. 18 pp.35-64 (2003)
Abstract
This study goes to reconstruct lyricism as a contents of Korean language education. The method to solve out this problem is not in the generalization of lyricism. Instead of that, the method of this study is in the concretion of lyric attributes found in the individual works. Especially, this study pays attention to poets of KAPF including ‘Lim, Hwa’ who pursued his identity as a poet in recovering lyric self. Then, this study gave a solution to the above problem, by answering to the following focalized questions, ‘What is the essence of lyricism?’, ‘How it can be presented through the writing poems with revealed writer’s identity?’ The conclusion of this study goes as follows. To begin with, writer’s lyric spirit exists for finding life truth in our own lives. The phase of discovery does not comes from overcoming the conflict between the human and the world as mentioned in the previous researches, but from cognizing and enduring the truths to life. By coming to the above problematical point, this study intended to point out the transcendence or unreality in traditional poetics. This intention meets the purpose of this study that was going to rouse people to be conscious of social engagement in lyricism. This study discussed it in a way of exhibiting writer’s identity as a lyric self through the poems. Firstly, this study suggested that lyric self’s speech derives social engagement as a common sympathy from society, judging from the fact that lyric self’s speech is both subjective and co-subjective speech. Secondly, this study emphasized that the prospect derives social engagement as people’s becoming optimistic from 서정 시학 교육을 위한 서정 정신 연구 63 society, judging from the fact that lyric self reveals the world which both exists and should exist. In conclusion, this study searched into the writer’s identity who produces lyric poetry, sticking to the contemporary engagement that should be oriented in reconstructing lyricism. This solution was originated from the judgment that lyricism should be discussed in the field of coexisting of lyric poetry and lyric human. Also, it was originated from the position that lyricism should be understood as a try of making ‘Identity’ in the more ideal spot by changing the world and me through the constructing his or her identity. 【key words】Education of Lyricism, Lyricism, ‘Identity’, Identity, Atti- tude, Lyric Spirit, Lyric Self, Truth of Lives, Cognizance, Co-Subjective Speech, Sympathy, Prospect, Optimism, So- cial Engagement, Shift of Lives
