기형도 시에 나타난 경계(境界)의 세계 인식

Abstract

This study aims to analyze Gi Hyeongdo’s poems from the view point of world perception of marginality. In this paper, I define Gi Hyeongdo’s ambivalent consciousness as the world perception of a marginal being`s identity. Also, I expect to be able to explain the world perception of this poet by expanding the marginal man theory. Marginal man is generally understood to be hybrid entities in a multicultural context, and the marginal man theory is also useful in explaining the world perception of the self experiencing conflict and confusion between opposing or heterogeneous domains. Gi Hyeongdo’s poems are framing the inside of those who are afraid of choice or hesitate in the boundaries of this and the other. For example, the poems of this poet show the attitude of standing at the boundaries of reality and ideals, ideologies and behaviors, hopes and despair, secrets and plazas. These paradoxical perceptions show the paradigm of a tragic world view. A tragic world view takes on a paradoxical attitude of 'positive and also negative' to the world as an attitude that human beings can think about in the contradictory two demands of the truth of the self and the falsehood of the unacceptable world. Gi Hyeongdo’s work can be read by the internal anguish of the self, hesitating at the boundary between here and there, without participating in any particular camp or claim. Why is Gi Hyeongdo’s poetry read over and over again despite his aesthetic incompleteness? It is probably due to the aesthetic modernity preoccupied by the world perception of marginality and inner anguish.