The purpose of this thesis is to think about the characteristic of Jiyong’s poetry. The object of Jiyong’s poetry is water. In his poetry, water shows up in very different ways. Ocean is mostly used. The others are “lake”, “rain”, “rainfall”, “stream”, “hot spring”, and etc. Even if the main material of poetry isn’t about water, the image of water is often showed. Also, “water” is used in the image expressions. When he use a poetic object that’s not about water, he often compares the object to “water”. In Jiyong’s poetry, the reason of using water a lot is more psychological than the poet’s experience. Traditionally “water” stands for “motherhood consciousness”. There is motherhood consciousness in his heart. He has mother in his real life, but in his poetry, he says that he doesn’t have one, and when he saw animals split up he says that they will be very sad about being separated with their mother. And these conscious is affected since the first poems and until the lasts. These motherhood consciousness works very importantly in making images in his poetry. The motherhood consciousness becomes the life conscious. He makes images with these conscious. He put life and breath and make outstanding images that seems like living. With these image expressions, his visual image gives a feeling that they are not pictures, but a moving screens. Motherhood consciousness and life consciousness are simple and general psychology that men has. Thus, those are the power of literature that draws the human and universe. Jiyong is a poet who used this general poetic conscious effectively than any one, and made it literally.

The purpose of this thesis is to think about the characteristic of Jiyong’s poetry. The object of Jiyong’s poetry is water. In his poetry, water shows up in very different ways. Ocean is mostly used. The others are “lake”, “rain”, “rainfall”, “stream”, “hot spring”, and etc. Even if the main material of poetry isn’t about water, the image of water is often showed. Also, “water” is used in the image expressions. When he use a poetic object that’s not about water, he often compares the object to “water”. In Jiyong’s poetry, the reason of using water a lot is more psychological than the poet’s experience. Traditionally “water” stands for “motherhood consciousness”. There is motherhood consciousness in his heart. He has mother in his real life, but in his poetry, he says that he doesn’t have one, and when he saw animals split up he says that they will be very sad about being separated with their mother. And these conscious is affected since the first poems and until the lasts. These motherhood consciousness works very importantly in making images in his poetry. The motherhood consciousness becomes the life conscious. He makes images with these conscious. He put life and breath and make outstanding images that seems like living. With these image expressions, his visual image gives a feeling that they are not pictures, but a moving screens. Motherhood consciousness and life consciousness are simple and general psychology that men has. Thus, those are the power of literature that draws the human and universe. Jiyong is a poet who used this general poetic conscious effectively than any one, and made it literally.

Water, motherhood consciousness, life conscious, image expression, dynamic form, personification