김춘수 초기 시에 나타나는 고독의 의미 연구

Abstract

Kim Chunsoo is a poet who constantly led his own poetic world and explored the existence. His early poems therefore continue to affect the subsequent poems. He engrossed in the existence due to his personal experience of suffering from violence initiated by Japan in his 20s, particularly concentrating on being alone of existence－“solitude.” The Korean poet considered this as a journey of life and his thought about solitude frequently appears in his poetic theory. Thus, more detailed research on what solitude means as the poet defines is needed and his poetic world can be figured out in more details when the implication of solitude is In this context, this study aimed to study “solitude” that the poet spoke. “Solitude” focuses on being alone of existence and like divine punishment of being solitary despite being with people. “Deficiency” and “freedom” are embedded in solitude. Deficiency refers to, in other words, the limits as a corporeal person, thereby incapable of following the spiritual enhancement. On the contrary, “freedom” is oriented to other’s time by escaping from the deficiency and in line with the artistic orientation. Elements of existential deficiency are concentrated in his early poems and ambiguous entities appearing in his early poems are described as forms that primarily desire for something due to deficiency. The other is also presented as an deficient entity and subject seems to be portrayed as showing sympathy with it. “Flower,” an indispensable element in his early poems, also involves the deficiency. It aims to fulfill the deficiency through calling. If this is applied in the process of creative writing, it is consistent with artistic deficiency in an attempt to approach the source of existence.