Place is physical basis to make history by human experience. It is obtained by the five senses. Also it is overall site of life where to carving the depth of recognize. Therefore, every human being can not live without the place to lean on. Placeness response is writing on the bone and the muscle. It is drawing on the brain and the heart. So it is be imaginative geography in literature. In other words, place experience of poet is medium to forms poetic consciousness.
Most of the Baek Seok"s poetry has Specific places. The purpose of this study is to analyze how he get the placeness by what emotional context on Baek Seok"s poetry. It is belong to process of accepting literary imaginative geography from place experience.
Japanese imperialists were bushy to redesigned have traditional geographic system of Joseon dynasty. They fully relocated geography shape. They forced emotion which unsuitable to us. Therefore, the actual field of place experience is different to imaginative geography as literary emotion space. In those times, Joseon was space of lost cause lost sovereignty and trauma place where we had to undergo pain of losing. At that time, poets were no exception. So they sang the lost place, "Joseon", "hometown", "home" with particular emotion. We have got double whammy, Stolen home and hometown because of we are stolen our country. Home and hometown are signify places to be shown fundamental presence of human stably. Loss of home induce uneasiness of existence and finally make a crisis loss of identity. Modern intellectual, Baek Seok also suffered by conflict and confusion cause he felt deep gap between premodern space and modern space that was built by Japanese forcing. In colonization, we have lost human freedom andprosperity. Modern intellectual, poet, Baek Seok has such that experience with all. Through this, I"d try to observe how to describe his idea about place experience with Baek Seok"s poetry. In spite of he is modern intellectual, it is hard to find sense of place in the city on his poem. But it is clearly find topophilia and placeless about home, hometown. He well drew place experience and sense of place including the market, including the harbor, mountains, villages, streets, etc on travel and nomadic life. Travel space is recognized unfamiliar place because of experience subject doesn"t live there. But there is similar life as like hometown. Similar memory remind topophilia and sense of place about merriment people, lovers. Placeless appears in endless nomadic life travel experience. Topophilia is more much growing since someone leaving from the living place. And also sense of placeless is much growing because someone is not living there.
All beings want to get some comfortable place in life. Crisis like placeless comes along, we hope familiar new place for make recover relationship. Baek Seok"s desire about hometown is figured by rural communities, mountains and beach in the poem. Hope for familiar new place is life desire and escape from unfortunate reality.