기형도 시의 공간 의식 연구

Abstract

In literary imagination, space is perceived as a new one by experiences and symbols and is also the center of urgent values. The inner space of a work has a deep connection with a word view of a writer and to analyze this is an appropriate way for us to look into the inner world of the writer and to understand his works. ‘House’, Ki Hyung-do’s boyhood space in his poems, is expressed as absence or dearth and which seemed to influence a negative recognition of the being of the speaker and the world. Such negative recognition of space is linked with a negativity of ‘urban’ space. This ‘urban’ space, where the law of circulation of existence is neglected, suppresses the ontological circulation of a poetic subject. Therefore, he tried a new change not towards ‘nature’, a space to aim at but for the unity of a cosmological rhythm through the conversion of his recognition. The negative recognition about the world and existence is strongly expressed in that negative city, while the poetic subject has finally reached a positive ontological cognizance when being in nature’s circulatory order, an affirmative space to move toward. From this, what we should take notice of in poems of Ki Hyung-do is that the recognition of space is determined by whether or not the existence circularity is fulfilled.