박영종의 동시론 연구

Abstract

Since Park Yeong-jong’s theory of children’s poetry greatly influenced Korean children’s literature after liberation, it is meaningful to examine its formation process, orientation, and meaning. Park Yeong-jong’s theory of children’s poetry can be largely divided into creative methodology, appreciation theory, review, and postscript. In addition to this, there is a type of theoretical criticism that examines the problem of division between children’s songs and children’s poems, and there is also a short criticism that seeks to improve children’s culture. Park Yeong-jong’s theory of children’s poetry is centered on creation methodology and appreciation theory. His writing method is not so different from his creation methodology or appreciation theory because he presents example works and comments on the expression of poetic language, meter, figuration, and structure of poetry. Whatever it is, it is based on ‘the juvenile mind first (동심주의)’ and focuses on poetic language expression and technique. Since the liberation period and the Korean War, the Korean literary world has become reorganized around pure literature, and Park Yeong-jong’s theory of children’s poetry has become the mainstream of children’s literature. Park Yeong-jong’s theory of children’s poetry is based on a fantastic world of children’s tales and mystery, and his focus on poetic language expression and technique has left no room for interest in society and reality. From the point of view of formalist literary theory, it is necessary to acknowledge Park Yeong-jong’s work, but at the same time, he narrowed the theory of children’s literature and deserved criticism that he distanced children from real-life scenes. Park Yeong-jong was interested in the division between children’s songs and children’s poems, as he himself claimed to be a children’s poem writer and not a writer of children’s songs. However, his work did not improve much after the controversy of division between children’s poems and songs since the Japanese colonial era, and only added speculative explanations.