박재삼 시의 연민의 정서 연구

Abstract

Purpose of this article is to clarify that emotions in Park Jae-Sam's poetry such as sorrow which are merely assessed as thoroughly being on personal level are not only based on the poet's temperament or personal affairs but they are related to awareness of reality and subsequently to criticism on it and that; its medium is the emotion of compassion based on sympathy. Pity means consciousness of kind in sorrow of others. In Park Jae-Sam's poetry, objects for compassion are largely classified into (i) ego in childhood; (ii) one's own flesh and blood; (iii) fictional woman characters and; (iv) the lower class. Ego in childhood or family is stressed as naive and innocent existence which is represented as 'glint' and 'light' in Park Jae-Sam's poetry. These objects have no reason for suffering but they are actually in pain, which makes them the existence of sorrow and pity as well. Another category of fictional woman characters is objectified as 'the weak' before enormous power, an obstacle for love and it is subject to pity. With huge strength they insurmountably face, fictional woman characters who endure absence of love as objectified existence are the very ego of the poet himself and they are beings on which his sorrow is projected. Lastly, it is significant that consciousness of kind and pity to the lower class are revealed through a masochistic composition. It is because the masochistic composition in Park Jae-Sam's poetry serves as a poetic design to most concretely express his awareness and criticism of reality. Painful reality concealed by the lower class' voices and subsequent pity from poetic subject appear as composition to secure the criticism on the ruling class on in-depth dimension through the process to acquire readers' sympathy.