이용악의 오랑캐꽃 에 대한 해석의 일 방향

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss Lee Yong-ak's poem "Orangkaeggot" regarding the ecology of the violet and the poetic words used in the poem. In this poem, he achieves the poetic imagery, which takes the deep likeness to the ecology of the flower, especially after its seedpods burst. The violet is self-pollinating in its buds by becoming cleistrogamous under the clement condition, though it usually gets pollen from other violets and succeeds in pollinating. Like this, on the base of the similarity that the flower looks like a barbarian's pigtailed style in its shape as well as the fact that it bursts its seedpods in autumn, he acquires rich expression of its narrativity and lyricism with the ecology of the flower and its narratives overlapped in the poem. In "Orangkaeggot," he uses not only the resemblance between a barbarian's pigtail and the flower's appearance - which is irrelevant to any historical background - but he presents also the contrast between the flower and the Korean nation. In the first and third stanzas of the poem, he shows his different senses about barbarians; in the first stanza it seems that he bears some slight sentiments of pity toward them, whereas in the third stanza he alludes his negative view about them. For a borderline of these two different attitudes there is the second stanza placed, in which he succeeds in expressing the passing of time by the poetic method of reminiscence or presumption and spatially. Thus, in "Orangkaeggot" he deals with the wild flower named 'orangkaeggot' but irrelevant to any northern barbarians by blood or in customs, and he reaches its own poetic figuration.