신석정과 백석 시의 비교 연구 – ‘유토피아’의 표현 양상을 중심으로

Abstract

The pursuit and study of utopia in contemporary Korean poetry is one of the main themes. The literary imagination of utopia as an ideal is generally assumed to be nature and to imagine concrete space. This paper examines the question of whether the utopia in contemporary Korean poetry is simply a matter of space as a place, focusing on the expression of utopia in the poems of Baek Seok and Shin Seok-jeong. By comparing two poets who lived during the Japanese colonial period, the utopia rituals of modern poetry can be revealed more clearly. The reason for using Baek Seok and Shin Seok-jeong's poems as examples in comparing Utopia's expression patterns is that they are based on oriental imagination, and the expression style of utopia is different. In the case of Shin Seok-jeong's poems, nature or something like that is often presented as an ideal. The problem in his poem is whether or not there are people in such a space. If the ideal was somewhat biased by imagining the ideal as an absent space in the early poems, the latter poems are imagining the ideal of a relatively human beings. Baek Seok, on the other hand, does not appear as a specific space but is revealed by relationships. The relationship appears in various ways, including not only childhood relatives, but also those with people and things I met in other places. Thus, for Baek Seok, utopia shows that rather than functioning as any place, it may or may not be an ideal place, depending on the relationship between people or things.