1960년대 『현대시』 동인의 세대의식 연구

Abstract

The 『Hyeondaesi』 Ecole has been evaluated to have distanced itself from the ideology of the times and the common conscious world of contemporary youths. It has been placed to an antipode against the participation of the "Early Spring Poetry" coterie in the history of literature. However, it should be noted that the 『Hyeondaesi』 Ecole was going through a very unique period of the 1960s. Its members were undergoing such major historical turning points as April 19 Revolution, May 16 Coup, and Korea-Japan Treaty in their twenties. An examination of the new generation consciousness of the members of the 『Hyeondaesi』 Ecole would thus help to evaluate them in a new way and approach their various substances. Focusing on it, this study made an approach to the 『Hyeondaesi』 Ecole from a generational point of view and found that the motives of "friends," "the dead," and reflection often found in their poems stemmed from the common experiences of the younger generation in the 1960s. The study also found that the close observation of and interest in the inner world actively argued for by the 『Hyeondaesi』 Ecole was not a common interest to all the poets. The rising number of its issues and critiques around 1968 indicates that the coterie was changing in its internal qualification as it was going through the period. At that time, the members broadened the scope of their awareness of external worlds through a "door" instead of remaining inside. The sympathetic statements from the outside of the coterie and the participation of new poets in the coterie advanced the horizon of its global consciousness to another level. In addition, its global consciousness was similar to the escaping tendency of its contemporary youths and shared a common denominator with the escaping consciousness possessed by its contemporary youth poets. In that sense, one can discover the aspect of solidarity of generational consciousness in the coterie. Its members voiced their opinions in the "showing" way with regard to their awareness of reality and did not neglect the social awareness of Korea-Japan Treaty. Taking those into account, it seems that the 『Hyeondaesi』 Ecole was passing through the points shared by the conscious world of the contemporary younger generation and that its poems contained the generational consciousness.