A Study on the Dong-Ju Yoon's Lyrical World and the Ideal of Childhood Innocence

The world of Dong-Ju Yoon’s poetry has a source of extreme and pure childhood innocence, like the innocent gaze of an unattached child, which enjoys the phenomenon itself with an intuition that can get close to the essence of things and accepts the world beyond its horizon. The consciousness and orientation of childhood innocence revealed in Dong-Ju Yoon’s poetry are not merely the result of conforming to the purposefulness of the times. However, they are inherited and deepened in his later works, constituting a consistent poetic sensibility that underlies the world of Dong-Ju Yoon’s poetry. Since there are many identical symbols, identifying consciousness of childhood innocence is necessary to understand the totality of the poet. Dong-Ju Yoon’s poetry coexists with childhood memories, reproduces them in epic paintings by dressing them in childhood innocence, and constructs the appearance of an archetypal world. The world of childhood innocence formed through the young narrator is expressed as a dynamic channel of reflection that seeks solutions to problems and overcomes the depression and lethargy of the poet's time. By symbolically depicting the lyrical world of the child, he vividly depicts the contradictions of the times and expresses the fundamental human emotions in his poems, forming the poet's authenticity. It is a search to find an outlet for hope through the style of children's poetry with clear and bright innocence and dynamic vitality without caving to the hardships of reality suffering from the dictatorship of a vast and oppressed world.