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초록

Recently discovered unpublished poems by Park Mok-wol have drawn considerable attention for revealing new dimensions of his poetic world. Key themes in these works include everyday life, faith, family, love, Jeju, Gyeongju, and childhood innocence. Among them, the most remarkable are the poems that evoke a contrast between the homeland and places away from home. Born in Goseong, raised in Gyeongju and Daegu, and having lived for a long period in Seoul, Park presents a dual sensibility—encountering solitude even in his hometown and rediscovering a sense of home in distant places. The poems vividly express a poetics of place through depictions of Gyeongju, Park’s childhood home, and Jeju, where he resided briefly near the end of the Korean War. For Park, Jeju emerges as a space of vitality and renewal, yet also of deep estrangement and poverty. In this regard, the newly revealed poems constitute a significant literary discovery, conveying tangible experiences of time and place. While Gyeongju serves as a site of nostalgic return and primal belonging, Jeju becomes a space of romantic escape and existential solitude. However, Park’s sense of place resists such a simplistic dichotomy: he encounters strangeness within the familiar and discovers vitality within unfamiliar places. This complex interplay of familiarity and estrangement ultimately defines the semantic richness and spatial depth of Park Mok-wol’s poetry.

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