The Banished Jupiter

This article examines how and why Kim Kirim (1908–?), a representative Korean modernist of the 1930s, commemorated his colleague Yi Sang (1910–1937). Kim expressed his thoughts on the deceased poet in his poem “The Banished Jupiter,” in which Yi is likened to Jupiter. The poem is widely remembered as Kim’s representative work, having been immediately translated into Japanese and published by their colleague, Kim Soun (1907–1981). This article analyzes the poem in detail, reconsiders the relationship between Kim Kirim and Yi, and underlines Kim’s attempt to overcome his own crisis as a poet and literary critic through Yi’s modernist writings during the final years of Japanese colonial rule in Korea and the liberation period (1945–1948

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