Chon Sang-pyong (천상병) (Poet)

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Chon Sang-pyong (천상병) (Poet)




Adı: Chon Sang-pyong / 천상병


Doğum Yeri: Japonya


Doğum Tarihi: 1930’un başları


Ölüm Tarihi: 28 Nisan 1993


1930’un başlarında doğan Chon,1945 yılında ailesiyle Kore’ye geri döner.

Chon Sang-pyong acıların ardındaki güzelliği görüp, bunu sanatıyla başarılı bir şekilde ortaya koymuştur. Öyle ki kendisi “Dünyadaki En Mutlu Adam” olarak da adlandırılmaktadır.

Özellikle son zamanlarda Koreli gençler arasında ün kazanmış ve onların şairin hayatında aradıkları masumiyet ve dürüstlük modern toplumda beyhude şeyler olarak görülmüştür.

Hayatındaki acılar şair Chon’u hiçbir zaman öfkelendirmemiştir. Onun şiirleri adeta hayatın doğal ve basit zevkleri içerisinde neşe ezgilerini andırır.
En meşhur şiiri olan Kwicheon (Back to Heaven) ölümü anlatır, ama bir son olarak değilde, bir yolculuk olarak… Chon bu şiiriyle; kendi hayat yolculuğunun ne denli güzel olduğunu anlatmayı hedeflemiştir.

Hayatın ona sunduğu kötü kader neticesinde maruz kaldığı şiddetli olaylar onu alkole yenik düşürür. 1988’lere kadar süren sarhoş geçirilen yıllar, şairin ciğerlerini yıpratır. Ve doktor Chon’un eşi Mok’a babasının yolun sonuna geldiğini, asla iyileşemeyeceğini ve kaçınılmaz sona hazırlıklı olması gerektiğini söyler. Seoul’ün 20-30 mil dışındaki Chuncheon’un bir kasabasında küçük bir klinikte görev yapan ve arkadaşları olan başka bir doktor, yardım etmeye karar verir. Chon oraya nakledilir ve sonraki aylar boyunca Mok kocasını yalnız bırakmamak için her akşam otobüsle onun yanına gider. Mok, Seoul ile Chuncheon’daki kasaba arasında yaptığı bu gidiş gelişler sırasında şöyle dua ettiğini belirtir: ”Tanrım! Henüz değil. Ona beş yıl daha ver, lütfen. Beş yıl daha…”

Ve şasırtıcı bir şekilde şair Chon gücüne yeniden kavuşur ve normal hayatına 5 yıl daha devam etmek üzere klinikten ayrılır. Bu ertelemeden sonra Chon, yeni şiirler ve yazılar yayınlar. Son nefese varıncaya kadar, 28 Nisan 1993 yılına kadar, son şiiri olan Kwicheon (Back to Heaven)’i yazar…




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English

Name: Chon Sang-pyong / 천상병
Birthplace: Japan
Birthdate: Early 1930
Deathdate: April 28, 1993

Born in early 1930 in Japan, Chon returned to Korea with his family in 1945.

His best-known poem is "Kwicheon" [back to heaven]. In addition to writing poems, he had also already begun to compose literary essays that were published in various periodicals. They constitute the other important aspect of his life's work as a writer.

Deeply traumatized by the violence he had undergone, he began to roam about, drinking wildly until at last, in 1971, he disappeared. Months passed, his friends and relatives searched for him everywhere to no avail. They could only conclude that he had died and been buried somewhere anonymously, unknown. In sorrow, they collected the poems they could find, and published a posthumous memorial volume. Suddenly news came that he was alive after all, interned in the Seoul municipal asylum where he had been taken after he had collapsed in the street.

He showed a clear improvement after being visited by Mok Sun-ok, the younger sister of one of his university friends. The doctor told her that she could help him by her visits and that if all went well he might be ready to return to life in the outside world after a couple of months. So Mok came to visit her brother's friend frequently, until he was as ready as he ever would be to come back to life in society. Only it was clear that he would hardly be able to fend for himself on his own. He had the heart of a child, and a child's fragility. Chon and Mok were married in 1972, a marriage that endured through twenty years of sometimes terrible hardship and struggle.

Friends helped Mok Sun-ok open a cafe in a small room in the Insadong neighborhood of Seoul, much frequented by artists, writers, journalists and intellectuals. The name given to the cafe was "Kwi-ch'ŏn" (Back to heaven), the title of Chon's most popular lyric.

By 1988, years of drinking had eroded the poet's liver until at last a doctor told Mok that her husband had reached the end of the trail, that he would never recover and she must prepare for the inevitable end. Another doctor, a friend of theirs, with a small clinic in the town of Chuncheon, twenty or thirty miles outside of Seoul, decided to try to help. Chon was admitted there and for the following months Mok took the bus every evening to be with him. She has written how, returning to Seoul from her daily visits, she used to pray silently in the bus: "God! Not yet. Give him another five years, please. Five more years."

Amazingly, strength returned and the poet was able to leave the clinic to resume a measure of normal living for another five years. In the space of this reprieve he saw the publication of new volumes of poetry and of essays. Until at last he made his final journey Back to Heaven on April 28, 1993.



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