A Comparative Study Of Korean Labor Poetry And Chinese Migrant Poetry

"Migrant literature" is a distinctive flower in world literature,wi th its greatest contribution is to discover and reshape those covered bo dies,and to expand the sensory field of the underlying world,and among which is most precious is a physical experience show that is outside of the fixed field of vision and an awakening of life consciousness and se nsibility.For the writing of the "Migrant literature","Migrant poets"have achieved the greatest artistic achievement.Throughout the history of world literature,"Migrant literature" is a worldwide literature,fo r the reason that under the similar historical background,the occident countries like England,France,America and Germany and others all have produced the literary phenomena which is similar to the contemporary 'Mi grant literature" in China and South Korea.Chinese Migrant poetry emerged in the 1990s,which is a cluster flo wers in the gardens of Chinese literature.The Migrant poetry takes the migrant workers into the city as the main object of creation,and recor ding the changes of the cultural mentality of the Chinese society and th e people at the bottom under the specific historical background in the l ate 20th century and the early 21st century.The Labor poetry in Korea n was produced in the 1980s,taken a series of social problems exposed during the rapid economic development of South Korea,such as class diff erentiation,wealth inequality and large income gap as background,and b y writing the specific experience dominated by laborers that rooted in t he bottom and the labor scene to reflect the survival problem of the bot tom people and criticizes the unreasonable social phenomenon.Although,the Migrant poetry in China and the Labor poetry in Korean produced i n two different countries which have different periods,different,cult ures,different social systems,but they are similar in many ways.First,the historical background is similar.Both of them are in the social t ransformation period that a variety of social contradictions intensifie d for a rapid economic development and urbanization.Second,the creat ive subject is the front-line laborers.They have a character of grass roots in the bottom.Third,they all take the life of the bottom workers as the theme.Concerning about the livelihood of the people at the bott.om,and reflecting the social phenomenon in the transition period.This paper selects 29 Chinese labor poems and 35 Korean labor poems from "Anthology of Zheng xiaoqiong"written by Chinese migrant poet Zhe ng xiaoqiong,”Appointment with your heart”written by Chinese migrant p oet Xu fei,“The lament of south journey”written by Chinese migrant po et Liu dacheng,and "Morning of labor“written by Korean labor poet Pia o laojie,“Universal laborer" written by Korean labor poet Bai wuchan,“Our bowls”written by Korean labor poet Zheng renhe,and adopts the re search methods of comparative literature parallel study,thematic resear ch,social and historical criticism,formalism criticism,structuralism criticism and reception aesthetics to compare and analyze Chinese migran t poems and Korean labor poems.The research on Chinese migrant poems and Korean labor poems mainly focusing on their respective national literature to carry out,and which has already achieved fruitful results.However,in the available litera ture,there is no relevant achievement in the comparative study between Chinese migrant poetry and Korean labor poetry.Based on this innovation,this paper aims Tto enrich and sublimate the research perspective of und erlying literature,and further explore and pay attention to the spirit.u al field of underlying world which can lead to more significant studies on migrant literature.This paper is divided into five chapters:The first chapter is the introduction.This chapter includs the purp ose and significance of the study,sorting out the related research on C hinese migrant poetry and Korean labor poetry,research methods,shortco mings and so on.The second chapter is the background and concept of Chinese migrant poems and Korean labor poems.First,filom the perspectives of social and cultural development of China and South Korea,this paper examines the background and development stages of Chinese migrant poems and Korean la bor poems.Second,in the process of their emergence and development,th e forms and contents of Chinese migrant poems and Korean labor poems are different due to the influence of times and society.But,both of them reflect the labor life and labor problems,and belong to the category of labor literature.The third chapter is the theme comparison of Chinese migrant poems a nd Korean labor poems.This paper compares the anthology themes of Chine se migrant poet Zheng xiaoqiong,Xu fei,Liu dacheng,and also Korean la bor poet Piao laojie,Bai wuchan,Zheng renhe.First,taking "Anthology of Zheng xiaoqiong”written by Zheng xiaoqiong and "morning of labor"written by Piao Lao jie as examples,from the perspective of isolation in labor scene and marginalization in daily life,this paper analyzes t he tragic reality of migrant workers in China and South Korea to summari ze the similarities and differences and explore the deep reasons.Second,taking "The lament of south journey" written by Liu dacheng and "Our bo wls" written by Zhengrenhe as examples,analyzing the homology and homes ickness of "grassroots" life,clarifying similarities and differences to reflect the life emotions of the grassroots people in China and South K orea.Third,taking”Appointment with your heart" written by Xu fei and"Universal laborer" written by Bai wuchan as examples,by analyzing th e response to safeguarding legitimate rights and interests,as well as t he awakening of class and stratum consciousness to snow the struggle aga inst reality and the awakening of consciousness,and explores the simila rities and differences and their causes.The fourth chapter is the creation characteristics of Chinese migran t poems and Korean labor poems.This chapter discusses the creation char acteristics of Chinese migrant poems and Korean labor poems and makes a comparative analysis from the perspective of paying attention to the rea der' s expectations of the creative approach,the combination of narratio n and lyric,the pursuit of diversified perspectives and poetic forms,e tc.The five chapter is the conclusion.As a summary of this paper,this chapter further summarizes and analyzes the similarities and difference s between Chinese migrant poems and Korean labor poems,as well as the r easons for the similarities and differences.Furthermore,this paper exp ounds the significance of the Chinese and Korean literary phenomena in t he specific period of society,literature and culture for the developmen t of their respective literary history and even the world literary histo ry.Pointing out the deficiency of the text,as well as the problems Tto be further studied in the future at the same time.Comparative literature is a cross-national,cross-cultural and c ross-disciplinary study of literature which is from an international p erspective and through a comparative approach,aiming to explore the uni versal laws and characteristics of literature in order to promote the de velopment of literary communication.Literature is a reflection of socie ty.In a specific historical period,a large number of Chinese and Korea n literary circles have paid attention to the reality of the social tran sition period and the creation of the life of the underclass which is ch allenging to compare the underclass writing in two countries with differ ent cultures and social systems,and it can be said that the comparative study of Chinese and Korean labor poems is a new attempt.There is also something new in the Korean translation of the selected 29 Chinese migr ant poems.What5 s more,the Chinese people's yearning for a better life in the new era,the attention to the bottom and bottom literature has a certain practical significance.