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A Study of Mental Levels of Park, Myung-Yong's Poetry

The poetic world of Park, Myung-Yong is based upon the 4 mental levels. The first leve lis ‘the labyrinth or finding a way in the foggy area’, which is derived from the fact that he regards everyday reality as an unexplainable and obscure consciousness. His way of recognizing the reality as a confusion and the unknowable means that the reality itself is so for him. But he never gives up and tries continuously to find the truth. The second level is ‘the semiotic network of nature or things’. The nature and things of his poems draw our attention as they are almost always with the Oriental spirit which is based on the world-view of personification. The most significant thing among the things in his poems is the ‘river’. The river in his poems works even as a logic to recognize the truth or the wisdom. The third level is ‘the world of small and trivial things’. They mean the alienated and deserted things which include not only the natural world or things. They also embrace our lives in general and the psychological presence of the poet himself. In his poetry, he perceives the order and the principles of life through interest and sympathy in them. The fourth level is ‘the great freedom or the will to transcendence’ where he hopes to reach by way of reflection on which his sentimental peculiarity is based on. The fourth level presupposes the overcoming of the death, that is, the practice of life and love.