허무의 육체와 몸의 정치성 — 고은 시에 나타난 ‘몸’의 인식

Abstract

This article features a discourse of the perception of ‘body’ in Go-un’s poetry. While most research on Ko-un’s poetry have focused on an ideological, Buddhist and national discourse which his spirit-oriented poetry has shown, this research has a worthwhileviewpoint how his world of spirit and an outlook of the world have expressed through the perception of ‘body’. The poetic words in Go-un’s ‘poems of body’ are symbolic enough to call as a hieroglyph that shows his spirits and an outlook of the world. The poetic words of ‘body’ in his early poems such as in [The Sense of Entrance into Nirvana] are full of emptiness and the awareness of mortality. The early ‘poems of body’, <religous exultation>, <farewell>, <tuberculosis>, <luxury>, and <memory of a grave>, incorporate the awareness of mortality and loss of the ego. It attempts to reveal the meaning of the existence through the extinction of it. Here, ‘body’ represents the extinction of the world and the existence. Referring an emptiness and the death is directly engaged to the revealing the existence. The nihilistic awareness of ‘body’ effects on the conversion of consciousness to grope the aliveness of a body in 1960s. The words of body in poems, <Snow Covered Road>, <Convalescence>, <Temptation>, and <Mountains Covered With Fresh Verdure>, are attained to an awareness of unity which structures the world through ‘body’. The process of recovering the aliveness and freshness of body helps the defeat of the inferiority complex about his sister and emptiness which are shown in his early poems. The aliveness and emptiness of ‘body’ experiences the turning point in the era of democratization. In 1970s, his ‘poems of body’ reaches the awareness of the ‘body’ interconnected with the world which are shown in <Bulletproof>, <A Song of a Sickroom>, <An Arrow>, <Today, Again>, <Dead Flag>, <Stars>, and <A Road>. This has been a ‘bullet’ and an ‘arrow’ of spirit which penetrates an era of democratization in 1980s. His physical discourse as a ‘bullet’ and an ‘arrow’ has beenexpanded to an area of body which called as a spiritual flag.