최하림 시 연구－화자의 특징을 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the characteristics of the narrator appearing in Choi Harim’s poetry. This paper views Choi’s poetry as a form of speech carried out by the narrator. Choi began his poetic activities in the 1970s when ‘words’ were forcefully controlled. During the time when the reality could not be expressed in accurate language, Choi’s selection of ‘words’ portray an acute response to a target that could not be discerned with discrimitive knowledge. Moreover, Choi’s life-long contemplation on language is connected to his fundamental thoughts on the internal responses of the human being. He has often used silence and margin in his poetry to signify his awareness of the reality. Later in his life, suffering from illness, he focused on visualizing the world of an invisible subject. This paper choses to concentrate on the narrator－in other words, the way words are spoken－to disclose the uniqueness and the particularity of Choi Harim’s poetry, because by looking into the narrator, one not only gains insight into Choi’s expressive technique, but more importantly the fundamental modality of language he expresses. This is why the paper centers on the narrator in Choi’s poetry. With the aim of probing into Choi’s inner world with lucidity, this paper divides and retraces the characteristics of the narrator from the early periods to the later periods. The narrator examined in this paper not only illuminates the artistic values and aesthetic traits of Choi’s poetry, but also reveals his close connection to the inner mindset of Choi. In conclusion, this paper recognizes Choi Harim’s intricately woven world view through the narrators in his poetry.