Kim, So-wol(김소월)'s poetry have many deaths. Example 'lover (nim, 님)' appears frequently in his poetry. Also He is a dead person. Poetic languages that are 'go(가다), leave(떠나다), tomb(무덤), the night can't sleeping(잠 못 드는 밤), (absent) you(부재하는 당신)' are relate with death. The speaker in the poems talks to a dead listener. He faces to the situation of death. By his talking, the dead listener comes in the poem. The death in So-wol's poetry communicate life and death. Talking to the dead person make life and death are homogeneous. By death eternal oneness with the object is possible, and unchangeability of love can be. But talking to the dead person includes despair and sorrow. In the actual grief the speaker want to go to the 'nim' by his death. Beyond the death 'nim' exit, and actual griefs are disappear. This world means utopia. It can be achieved only through the death. An ardent wish to the death comes out images of separated mountain and a bird. A bird fly to the death world. In Kim, So-wol's poetry the death is not nothing or ending but creating or formating. It is a kind of maternal death. In there the death restore the life. And the death is not exit in conclusion. 'Sanyuwha(산유화)' is the poem reveals this circulation of life and death, absent of death. So-wol's thinking is similar to the Korean traditional awareness of death. That can be an answer why many korean like So-wol and his poems. In spite of dealing with trivial things, So-wol's poems have poetic tension and depth. The death makes it can be.

Kim, So-wol(김소월)'s poetry have many deaths. Example 'lover (nim, 님)' appears frequently in his poetry. Also He is a dead person. Poetic languages that are 'go(가다), leave(떠나다), tomb(무덤), the night can't sleeping(잠 못 드는 밤), (absent) you(부재하는 당신)' are relate with death. The speaker in the poems talks to a dead listener. He faces to the situation of death. By his talking, the dead listener comes in the poem. The death in So-wol's poetry communicate life and death. Talking to the dead person make life and death are homogeneous. By death eternal oneness with the object is possible, and unchangeability of love can be. But talking to the dead person includes despair and sorrow. In the actual grief the speaker want to go to the 'nim' by his death. Beyond the death 'nim' exit, and actual griefs are disappear. This world means utopia. It can be achieved only through the death. An ardent wish to the death comes out images of separated mountain and a bird. A bird fly to the death world. In Kim, So-wol's poetry the death is not nothing or ending but creating or formating. It is a kind of maternal death. In there the death restore the life. And the death is not exit in conclusion. 'Sanyuwha(산유화)' is the poem reveals this circulation of life and death, absent of death. So-wol's thinking is similar to the Korean traditional awareness of death. That can be an answer why many korean like So-wol and his poems. In spite of dealing with trivial things, So-wol's poems have poetic tension and depth. The death makes it can be.

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