북한식 서정의 초기 양상 —『리용악 시선집』(1957)을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aimed to figure out the early aspects of North Korean style lyricism with special reference to“ Lee Yong-Ak Anthology”published in 1957 by Chosun Writers Association Press. The early aspects of North Korean style lyricism shown in“ Lee Yong- Ak Anthology”can be divided into three. Firstly, there is a lyrical formation by the description of poetic space. Poems of Lee Yong-Ak had a characteristics to reflect lyrical image by means of landscape description before his defect to North Korea. Since his defect to North Korea, such poetic characteristics expressed hopeful and optimistic reality for the construction of utopia beyond a simple landscape description. Secondly, there is a lyrical image embodied by the routine of ordinary workers and love of the youth. Lyricism in North Korea created a methodology to find out unique style through the communist party convention. One particular thing to point out was ‘lyrical main character’. This was generally embodied under the love story between workers and the youth. The intention of such frame was to educate people to comply with the state value and to train people for the task of the communist party. Thirdly, there is a distinct North Korean lyrical feature through the combination between lyric and epic. The most unique feature in North Korean style lyricism is that it expanded the meaning of lyricism by the mix of lyric with epic. It is called“ lyrical epic.”Except for works classified in this genre, such features are widely shown in the overall works. Two lyrical characteristics mentioned in this study are embodied in the frame of epic at large. The early aspects of North Korean lyricism can be defined as a process of socialistic appropriation of existing lyrical concept which was allegedly knows as a polluted concept derived from the western bourgeois society.