서정주 시에 나타난 아버지의 의미

Abstract

In this paper, I explore these three things：what is the meaning of father in Chong-ju So's poems?；How is the image of father depicted chronologically?；What is he pursuing through the image of father? From this study, I can conclude that there is a desire for the adaptation to the continuously changing reality, together with the negative desire in the reality for the poetic life, in Midang's inner world. With the interactions of ambivalent feelings, various images of father are represented in his poems. First, during the Japanese Invasion, he realized the illegitimacy of the colonization, and recognized the image of father negatively, regarding father as a 'servant.' Since his father served as the supervisor of the peasants for Dong-bok Yeng-gam 'Dong-bok County Chief,' his father seemed to him to be a power-oriented person. From the perspective of the period when it was the top priority to resist the Japanese as big others, Midang's reaction is considered to be natural. Such a reaction results from the fact that he could not fully understand what is inside of father by just focusing on his father's title, County Chief. Second, in the late period of the Japanese Invasion, Midang pursued a powerful father to compensate for the deficiency caused by the absence of his father. At that time, the powerful father is considered to be the Japanese. He cooperated with the Japanese as drawing the realistic conclusion that the Japanese would dominate the Korean for more than a hundred years. It is an anachronistic error to replace the deficiency for the father with the powerful father. Third, after liberated from the Japanese occupation, his power-oriented tendency led to the intimacy with Syngman Rhee, the representative of the rightists. As a result, he wrote Rhee's biography. After the Korean War, his pursuit of the powerful father went on. However, he returned to the Myth and Tradition after experiencing the fear and anxiety through the war. Then, he became skeptical of the powerful father. Finally, after the 60's and 70's, he returned to his father who suffered and hurt from his criticism as he wrote the poems about his home town. He realized that his father abandoned his dream after he had been in debt due to the grandfather, and sacrificed himself for his family. He finally returned to his father after realizing his father's lonely life.