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The Rise of a Modern Sensibility | LIST

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The Rise of a Modern Sensibility | LIST
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http://list.or.kr/content/rise-modern-sensibility
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English(English)
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SOUTH KOREA
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Seoul
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Chong Hyon-jong , Lee Seong-Bok , Jang Jung-il

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The Rise of a Modern Sensibility   By Lee Kwang-ho on Oct 28 2014 02:50:05 Vol.10 Winter 2010 The dawn of a new generation of poets opened the possibilities of experimentation and diversification.     One of the driving forces of modern Korean poetry has been the pursuit of modernity. The efforts to attain a sense of the contemporary that went beyond traditional lyricism became active in the Korean literary scene in the 1930s. Korean poetry, however, only began to include the diversity and depth of modernity after liberation and division in the 1960s when a new generation emerged as literary leaders. After liberation, poets Kim Soo-young and Kim Chunsu pursued two aspects of modernity: a “critique of reality” and the “autonomy of language,” both of which had a major influence on the subsequent development of poetry in Korea. The struggle against the detached and lofty nature of Korean literature and the oppressiveness of Korean society meant that the poetic methodology itself came to signify resistance against reality. The way poetic language responded to the oppressive reality of the times was in itself an aesthetic achievement and a form of resistance. The “April 19 generation” that entered Korean literature after the epochal April 19 Revolution in 1960, was the leading force behind it. The poetry of this generation recognized an oppressive reality as the problem of existence and explored the poetic methodology that could expose it. Such poetry was based on the relationship of tension between the autonomy of literary language and reality. It can be seen as the exploration of modernity in Korean poetry as a response to the industrialization that took place in the 1960s and the 1970s.

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