1920년대 ‘사랑’을 주제로 한 시조에 대한 백석의 인식과 그 의미화 맥락에 대한 고찰

Abstract

This study aims to investigate Baekseok’s prose on sijo written in the 1920s, while focusing on the context of how the theme of “love” was signified and its meaning by identifying the work’s similarities to Kim Eok’s prose. In analyzing these two modern poets’ interests in sijo, this study assumes that sijo may have become a “body of meaning” that the poets have come across during the development of a new literary field. Baekseok used the theme of “love” when approaching sijo and selecting works from collections of sijo. This allowed him to holistically experience the aesthetic features and meaning of sijo. It is also noted that he attempted to understand and comprehend the features of sijo as a combined form of music and words, as he faithfully presented the information about the author and music of the sijo during the process of identifying the semantic units of the prose and its signification. Above all, similar to Kim Eok’s prose, Baekseok’s prose carries a disjunctive proposition that he aims to identify the “meter” of literary works on love, which is unique to each country, through sijo. With a universal perception to interpret sijo in alignment with poetry from other countries, the originality of his way of introducing the Korean sijo using signification suggests that sijo literature can be interpreted as having served as a single “body of meaning” during the course of moving to a new literary field.