전봉건의 「6·25」 연작에 나타나는 반복 기법 연구 - 극적 구성을 중심으로

Abstract

Jeon Bong-geon’s serial poem “6·25” depicts the stark reality of Jeon Bong-geon’s dramatic experience of war, and are the poet’s ambitious works. Taking the center of Korean War serial poems is the repetition technique, and previous studies indicated that the overwhelming repetition lowered the perfection level of the poems. But this overwhelming repetition is understood as intended by the poet to describe the myriads of deaths, occurring across Korean Peninsula. In addition, in order to depict the horrible situation of the war hitting the entire Korean Peninsula, the serial poems involved a kind of narrativity, and this depiction takes not the novel’s four composition stages – introduction, development, turn, and conclusion – but a similar pattern of the drama’s five stages - introduction, development, turn, conclusion, and finale. This paper examined the characteristics of the narration stage shown in various parts of the serial poems, using Freytag’s drama structure analysis technique. Korean War serial poems use the repetitive progress and stoppage, advance the narration, and create poetic meaning. In the beginning stage where the tension of war is presented, the poetic form is repeated, and musical order is unfolded, presaging the prewar order, and the war development stage illustrates the formal order shown in the beginning stage, illustrating the deaths and destructions spreading across Korean Peninsula. The climax stage reintroduces repetition, repeats “dying a death beyond death,” depicting the overwhelming deaths gripping Korean Peninsula. The conclusion stage repeats the images of ruins and smoke, illustrating the atrocities of war hitting Korean Peninsula. As such, Jeon Bong-geon’s serial poem “6·25” uses the repetition of progress and stoppage in order to illustrate the development of war borrowing the narration structure.