기형도 시에 나타난 소외 이미지 연구

Abstract

‘Alienation’ in the Ki, Hyeong-do’s poetry, which is running through his poetic world, underlies the consciousness of his poems as a basic motif. Thus, this study examines the aspects of the alienation in the Ki’s poetry by analyzing how a sense of alienation is realized in his work and especially how building various images is related to expressing a sense of alienation. The poet makes characters in his poems remain anonymous by calling them ‘a guy’, ‘Mr. Kim,’ or ‘he’, and this anonymity can be viewed as a model of an alienated man who has lost his identity. The poetic narrator, who feels frustrated by being alienated from the self, develops the consciousness of an old man, and this leads to death. An old man is an alienated person pushed out of society and his own life, and his future is nothing but death. It can be considered as a manifestation of a sense of alienation that a dark and gloomy image dominates Ki’s poetry rather than the image of joy and hope. A sense of alienation takes a concrete form by borrowing the natural images in the poems. His poetic world is dark and cold and it is always rainy, snowy, or very foggy. Although there is a little deviation in their meanings, those images of natural phenomenon such as fog, clouds, and rain are utilized as the medium that emphasizes the image of alienation. It is safe to say that the alienation expressed in Ki, Hyeong-do’s poetry results from criticism of Korean society in the 1980s where life became irrational and structural imbalance got intensified. His poems, which are riddled with death and a sense of futility, represents the alienated people of the day. The sense of alienation discussed in this thesis is the most common public emotion in the 1980s, and the poet takes that public emotion, alienation as a poetic motif.