한국 근대 문학에 나타난 동아시아 철도망의 의미 연구 2 - 임화 시의 철도 표상을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to pay attention to the railway image that appeared to the progressive poets of colonial Joseon in the mid-1930s, and to look at its characteristics and literary meaning. Among them, I tried to use Im Hwa's railway poem published during his stay in Masan as the core text. It is because the railroad and the 'train' he left behind have a clearer opportunity and direction than other poets. The unique status of Im Hwa's railroad poetry can be seen in three aspects. First, the railway image is concentrated in a limited period after the dissolution of KAPF. It refers to the three years that he went down to Masan for treatment, and outside of this period, there are no cases in which railroads appear in the foreground in Im Hwa's poetry. Second, the railway symbol is linked to the southern part of the Gyeongbu Line, centering on a specific place called Masan. His stay in Masan was the decisive moment and main background for Im Hwa to pay attention to railroads. In order to read his railroad poems, the geopolitical uniqueness of Masan, which connects the 'Gyeongjeonnambu Line' and 'Gyeongbu Line', must be considered. Third, the main mood of the railroad poems is being formed by borrowing images of 'night' or 'darkness'. The combination of 'night' and railroad is used as a device to capture the divided consciousness of the poetic subject beyond the reality-critical semantic network of the railway representation of KAPF poets of the same period. The combination of railroad and 'night' inherited by progressive poets after Lim Hwa expanded into a rhetorical strategy of writers in response to the conservatism of the colonial literary world.