셰이머스 히니와 신경림 시에 나타난 사실주의적 서정성

Abstract

Motivated with Spivak’s term “subaltern” and “parochialism”, the purpose of this paper is to present a realistic lyricism and to demonstrate the poetic voices of modern contemporary poets, Seamus Heaney and Shin Kyung-rim, who have been approved by critics as the mainstream poets in 20th-century Irish poetry and Korean one. The common ground of realistic lyricism is based on Kavanagh’s argument that “parochialism in literature has the universal meaning against the Western literary centrism.” That is to say, the modern literary society tends to regard the marginal literature as the inferior one. But the parochial writing is to overcome the established attitude in Western literature. At this juncture, Shin and Heaney, rather than focusing on particular events from the present to future, concentrate primarily on the hinterland, remembering subaltern’s life, history, territory, and tongue of native grassroots. Their writings are not from the Western literary tradition but from the native receptivity toward the rural life and its reality. Finally this poetic reception of the real experience is deeply rooted in their realistic lyricism.