1950년대 사랑의 불가능성과 시의 은유구조 -전봉건, 조병화 시를 중심으로-

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explore how ‘the impossibility of love’ is revealed in metaphorical structures of poems in the 1950s, through the poems of Bonggun Jeon and Byunghwa Cho. Jeon existentially likens love, an abstract experience, through a physical combination with a woman‘s body. His poem takes an oppositional metaphorical structure, ’darkness against love.‘ ’Darkness‘ is a point where the impossibility of love is expressed. The structure of ‘darkness against love’ becomes a foundation which enables to actively affirm love, lacking otherness. The subject of love that Jeon offered, accomplishing a perfect sexual union, was a rational human being who creates and proves meaning, and can see through the modernity. This was the appearance of the modern man whom Jeon aspired. In the 1950s, Jeon tried to redefine the problem of corrupt sex and love to the problem of mentality and willingness. He tried to go beyond the impossibility of love, by pursuing eternity of love that transcends time. The poems of Byunghwa Cho directly faced the impossibility of love through the metaphorical structure of spatial dynamics. In his poems, subjects and objects intersect spatially, and possess the common senses of the intersection. Through this, ‘you’ and ‘I’ share the same existing method. “Love for self‘, becoming the way to understand love for others and the era, is a main trait of Byunghwa Cho’s poem. Cho viewed that a man walking ‘alone’ amid a competitive modern civilization, as being a common man of modern times. He suggests to endure ‘without hope’. Fully understanding the impossibility of love is to endure the pain of modern civilization. He attempted to embrace the impossibility of love, by not running away from ideas, but enduring modern civilization. The two poets pondered about the modern man‘s attitude while living amid modern civilization, when love was impossible. This was the poem in the 1950s that sought for modernity, humanism, and ethics for the Universal human beings.