이성선 시에 나타난 ‘집’의 의미

Abstract

A poet aesthetically embodies an actual experience, imagination orconception through an image. The image is an indicator of a poet’sthought, a poem’s subject and its meaning as well as a booster forconcreteness of poetic expression. The image in poems becomes a symbolof a poet’s consciousness by being used continually and repetitively. Lee sung-sun was born as the oldest son among two sons and onedaughter in Go-sung, Gang-won do in 1941. Since he started his literarycareer with‘ A Poet’s Screen’in『 Culture Criticism』in 1970, he has triedto recover the personal identity and discern an original order of spacethrough a oneness with nature. A memory of home, which one’s trace of life indwell in, remains in one’s mind for ever as a faint afterimage. Lee’s poems connote a memory andlonging for his hometown with his grandmother, mother, and father. Hisgrandmother’s love for him left a warm memory with a scenary ofcountryside. His mother was a person who loved to listen to sound ofnature. This made the poet embrace nature naturally and melt into it inhis life. His father offered the underlying foothold for Lee’s poetry in thathe made a decisive opportunity to communicate with nature and become conscious of beauty of nature. Lee’s house in his life, which he enjoyed peace of mind, was ecofriendly. He stayed mainly in Mt. Seorak from dawn to night. The poetwho dreamed of a unity with nature cognized nature as home throughcommunion with nature and meditation about it. A poet realizes that nature is the poet himself not by regarding natureas a subject but by communing with nature. Lee sung-sun tried to findhis own identity in the space by unifying with nature and space in hisdream house. His eco-friendly life dreamed a oneness with nature andhis poetic world shows a union of nature, space and him.