Mun Jeonghui | |
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| Born | May 25, 1947 Boseong, South Jeolla Province, South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Citizenship | South Korean |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | Dongguk University |
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| Hangul | 문정희 |
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| Revised Romanization | Mun Jeonghui |
| McCune–Reischauer | Mun Chŏnghŭi |
Mun Jeonghui is a South Korean poet. [1]
Mun Jeonghui was born in Boseong, Jeollanam-do, Korea on May 25, 1947. [2] She attended Jinmyeong Girls' High School, majored in Korean Literature at Dongguk University, and completed her graduate studies from the same university, where she has also taught. [3] While still in high school, she published her first collection of poems, Kkotsum (1965). In 1969 Mun Jeonghui made her debut in literature when her poems "Bulmyeon" (Insomnia) and "Haneul" (Sky) were accepted in Wolgan Munhak's feature on new poets. [4] In 2014, she served as the chairman of the Society of Korean Poets.
The core of Mun Jeonghui's poetry reveals a distinctly romantic consciousness, expressed in crystalline language, dominated by a complex interplay of vivid emotions and sensations. Her fine, occasionally startling poetic sensibility is best represented in the poem Hwangjiniui norae:
No, that isn't it. Even with little sunlight / with love alone / that is shy of new faces / like flowers of grass / I want to knock my whole body against a massive wall / and fall.
Mun's similes and metaphors are entirely subjective, having been internalized to chart the evolutions and dramas of her own emotions. Her figurative language becomes a register of her sensitivity, and movingly treats the themes of romantic love, reticence, suffering, and freedom. In a few poems such as Potatoes (Gamja), Saranghaneun samacheon dangsinege and Namhangangeul barabomyeo, Mun Jeonghui makes use of the elements of fairy tale narratives in order to arrive at an allegorical distillation of present reality. [5]
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