A study on montage technique in Hwang ji-woo’s poetry

Lee Kiju. 2015. A study on montage technique in Hwang ji-woo’s poetry. The main aim of this study is to interpret Hwang ji-woo’s poetry written in 1980s based on Eisenstein’s montage theory. This study, therefore, investigates that his poetry brings the intellectual impacts on readers with aesthetics of form destruction which differs from traditional aesthetics. This thesis also points out that this new way of aesthetics is distinct from that in 1980s’ ‘Minjung Poetry’. The study employed Eisenstein’s Montage theory to analyze Hwang ji-woo’s poetry and the summary is following; Dividing shots is priority to analyze each poem written with the montage technique. This dissertation establishes that dividing shots form poems is possible by Eisenstein’s ‘Optical conflicts’. Readers are shocked at deconstructing and reassembling reality which are caused by divisions of shots. The poetic effect of Hwang’s poetry is two-sided; one is humor from worldly, familiar events and the other is a shock from a random rearrangement of those events. This study also attempts to determine how each disparate element in Hwang’s poetry is contextualized by ‘Non-synchronization’ which is one of features of montage. Metric montage, rhythmic montage, tonal montage, overtonal montage, etc. were emerged in a variety way in Hwang ji-woo’s poetry. As a result, this thesis emphasizes that those montage techniques derive readers’ intellectual responses. It also pays attention to the fact that Hwang ji-woo got the readers shocked about daily life by focusing on ‘quotidienneté’ and he changed the readers’ intellectual emotion by placing familiar everyday life events in his poems. The result suggests that Hwang ji-woo tried to frankly criticize historical perception which is overwhelmed by ‘quotidienneté’ and the petit bourgeois’ everyday lives which became a routine custom.