기형도 시에 나타난 근대 도시 공간연구

Abstract

Modernity approaches our senses premising tragedy. Therefore, the life and the world after modern society that are established on the modernity have to underlie tragic aspects. The modernity born after the 19th century establishes the endless desire in our life, making tragedy inherent. The industrialization processed with the aspect of modernity and the urbanization that showed up as a result of industrialization also involve the tragic aspect of life. Ki Hyeong-do's poems show poetic themes with the spatial background of the modern industrialization. Esepcially Gwangmyeong-si, where he spent most of his life, is a satellite city of Seoul and had thick shadow of industrialization. Satellite cities near Seoul including Gwangmyeong-si were driven out of the metropolitan city of Seoul to outskirt in the industrialization of Korean society. They were the dwellings of urban low income people who were kicked out of Seoul, and were also the settlement of those who moved to the capital area leaving rural areas. The lives in the satellite cities have to have history of being alienated by those who couldn't enter the central areas. This is closely involved with the tragic aspect that industrialization and urbanization of Korea have. Modernity is closely involved with the process of a city's birth. Industrialization and urbanization are organically related. Modern space-time controls the overall lives after modern times through industrialization, reveals modernity and advances towards urbanization. As everyone knows, industrialization is processed with human's desire, governance structure and the gap between the rich and poor. Through mass production and mass consumption, the governance structure becomes firm, and the governance structure leads to the gap between the rich and poor. In the middle of the mass production and the mass consumption is human's desire. The mass production and the mass consumption gives the appropriateness to industrialization by stimulating human's desire constantly. Based on this industrialization, cities are born. Ki Hyeong-do's poems develop poetic world focusing on the tragic space of this industrialization and urbanization. His poems with the poetic space as the basis naturally show tragic aspects in the overall poems. Thus, the sentiment of his poems premises the tragic modernity and space. In that his poems actively borrow the spatial background and the aspect of life, it is very important to study modern space based on industrialization and urbanization. That's because the space of industrialization and urbanization that accounts for the important points of Ki Hyeong-do's poems not only shows the overall social aspects of Korea but also affects the poet's inner side and stream of consciousness.