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This study examines Shin Suk-jung’s 5 books of poetry collection and relates his life and literature to the periodical background, and contemplates the poet’s world of consciousness
about nature, history and reality, and poetic transformation aspect. Composing poems for half a century after his debut in the age of Japanese imperialism, Shin Suk-jung does not insist on one poetic world but reflects the periodical spirit and holds two worlds of nature-friendly lyricism and reality participation in his work. He lived his whole life with nature, and he was a poet who sought
motherlike warm feeling in nature. Nature forms the root of Shin Suk-jung’s poetry and is an important key to understand his poetic world. Nature forms the background of the poetic world in not only pastoral and nature-friendly poems but also works deeply intervening in history and reality. Also, as Shin Suk-jung is a living proof of history that shared the hurt and destiny of the
period, rigorous historical mind and participation are dissolved in his works. Shin Suk-jung showed various poetic transformation from his early poetry Candle to his last years’ Sound of Bamboo Wind. Going through liberation, chaos and distress of war, he obtained a reality
participation awareness that criticizes miserable reality of our blood, away from pastoral ideal world, and that awareness became deeper toward his later poetry. It is appropriate that Shin Suk-jung, who led his poetic world along with history based on nature even in hardships of distressful history and reality, is evaluated as a poet who harmonized ‘nature’ and ‘reality.’