황순원의 시적 실험과 어린이 상상력에 대한 고찰

Abstract

Hwang Soon-Won states in the preface of A Curio, his second collection of poems, “I am an another different test tube.” He means that in this book, he tests poetic writing in an attempt to extract the several unknown voices inside himself. This poetic test focuses on the process of writing works that have not yet been written, but want to be written in the future. The thought “I am a test tube” shows Hwang Soon-Won’s intention to extract the potential power of creative writing from his own existence rather than relying upon existing literary customs or conventional literary theory. This study assumes that children’s imaginations are the key poetic test in A Curio. The first characteristic of children’s imaginations in A Curio is the visual imagination. These parts of the imagination do not see the things through thought; instead, they see them as they are in order to absorb their movement and vibrancy. The second characteristic of children’s imagination is the play of the association of images. This type of poetry changes things by associating images or exaggerating a certain part of them. The third characteristic of children’s imagination is the coexistence of children’s eyes and adults’ awareness of reality. The poetic images make readers imagine what the poetic speaker does not say in the silence and empty space between words. These images and spaces between words contain questions about existence and society, life and death.