일제강점기의 동요∙동시론 연구 -한국적 특성에 관한 고찰-

Abstract

‘Children’s song’ including the meaning of prophetic song in areas of East Asia in which Chinese characters had been using became the genre of children's literature since its modern sense was invented and being used in Japan. Child magazine “Red bird” (1918) coteries newly launched movements of ‘children’s song’ and ‘children’s story’ in Japan and these names became firmly established through child magazine “Children” (1923) led by SaekDongHoe. ‘Children’s song’ as an ‘original written by a poet’ was clearly separated from ‘children’s free verse’ as a ‘composition written by a child’ in Japan,but they were indistinguishable in Korea. The reason was that Korean children's literature in the Japanese colonial period had been developed with youth movement. Theories of children’s songs in the 1920’s were contents to emphasize nature of child, artistry and rhythm under the slogan of ‘from enlightening song to children’s song’. This was affected by a theory of children’s song in Japan in which the nature of child was beautified romantically. However, ‘children’s song’ written in Korean was acting as a medium to awaken the national consciousness unlike ‘enlightening song’ in Japanese, and it was prohibited in school. Leaders of youth movement developed the literary movements of the youth due to these political effects. Theories of children’s songs in the 1930’s were contents to understand the nature of child, artistry and rhythm under practical and hierarchical views. At this point, the theory to propose the children’s verse of free verse deviating from the fixed rhythm emerged. In Japan, ‘children’s free verses’ written by children were clearly separated from ‘children’s song’ or ‘children’s verse’written by adults, but they weren’t in Korea. The theory of children’s verse was also affected by theories in Japan, but its historical context was different. Discussion of children’s verse in Korea was based on the proletarian children’s song movement. Debates related to ‘children’s song’ and ‘children’s verse’ had been deployed upon the change of direction of the literary movements of the youth.