1920년대 시에 나타난 도시체험 －도시풍경과 이념적 시선, 미디어의 문제를 중심으로－

Abstract

This paper examined various aspects of urban experience appearing in the 1920s Korean modern poetry. The City of early modern period, especially the city of Seoul, was the space having the cultural multi-dimensionality and complexity. In this period, the emergent landscape of colonial modernity formed the temporal-spatial boundary between the tradition and the modernity. Consequently, the mutually contradictory orientations in cultural and ideological areas competed to gain the hegemony for interpretating the reality of colonial modernity in which the non-simultaneity co-existed. In this paper, I analyezed the poetries of Kim Sowol, Yi Janghee, Jung Jiyong, Yi Sanghwa, Park Palyang, and Im Hwa to reveal the landscape of the modern colonial city and the spiritual life that they had witnessed in 1920s' city life. I especially examined the formation of the ideological gaze, and the influence of modern medias like publications, newspapers, the cinema, and modern paints. The urban experience appearing in the poetry of 1920s poets was very formless and confusing. It showed that the modern colonial cities including the city of Seoul was the dynamic Time-Space. The modern colonial city in the process of emergent urbanization and modernization caused distraction of gaze to the colonial intellectuals who couldn’t adapt themselves to the modern scopic regime. So the poets like Kim Sowol and Yi Janghee who could not realize the meaning of colonial modernity became to be confined to the inner world of isolated self with the feeling of loss and melancholy. In case of a student studying abroad(especially in Japan) like Jung Jiyong and Yi Sanghwa, the feeling of loss and melancholy seemed to be more complex because of their position as colonial intellecuals. But, unlike Jung Jiyong who was not able to find any ideological gaze, Yi Sanghwa escaped from the feeling of loss and melancholy because of his nationalistic vision. It was connected with the discovery of Chosun and its people. The Singyeonghyangpa(신경향파) poets of mid-1920s' could describe the city of Seoul as a colonial modern space with the ideological gaze. It can be acquired only when the poets gaze at the city with ideology to inquire the historical meaning and tendency of colonial modern city. Compared with the 1930s' modernist poets, The Singyeonghyangpa poets of mid-1920s' could not describe the urban landscape with refined sense and imagery. However, they wanted to create the ger urban landscape with their ideological, Marxistic, vision in ssestitution for the anonymous landscape of city and the fetishistic life of city. It can be found in the poetry of The Singyeonghyangpa poets of mid-1920s like Park Palyang and Im Hwa. Their poems which contain the desire for new utopia are the record of the youth's conflict with the colonial modernity.