Shin Seok-Cho's poetical style is deeply effected by Paul Vale´ry Though Vale´ry appreciated the Oriental thoughts, his thought was based on the Western rationalism Shin didn't regard the Western rationalism as the best He was saturated with the Eas...
Shin Seok-Cho's poetical style is deeply effected by Paul Vale´ry Though Vale´ry appreciated the Oriental thoughts, his thought was based on the Western rationalism Shin didn't regard the Western rationalism as the best He was saturated with the Eastern thoughts. However, because he was always conscious of Vale´ry, he could not free from the influence of Vale´ry. Anyway Shin's Dolpalmae is similar to Vale´ry's Le Vin Perdu But the poetical idea of the former is simpler and is organized more properly than the latter.
In this writing, Shin's view of poetry was pursued through the analysis of "Dol Palmae" and other works. We bacame to aware that he was looking for the world like endless waves that have primitive vitality and change continuously as Ocean waves It is where the East and the West, Classics and Modernity, the finite and the infinite, spirit and body, participation and purity are originally one The poetry he was looking for was as such.