조병화 시에 나타난 단독자 의식 연구

Abstract

Being-alone, described in Cho Byung-hwa’s poetry, is fundamental consciousness of the theme of his poems, such as solitude, love, freedom, eternity. His being-alone is derived from the failure of dreams and existential denial. He decided to find a different way of life after he failed to become a scientist, which he had pursued for a while. That’s the way of life to deny myth, history and custom, and then choose the being-alone, after being- towards-death. The life of being-alone, which is the way he decided to live, formed the spirit of poetry of being-with by the dialectical progress. In other words, the life of being-alone causes loneliness, and then the loneliness generates relationship by being-with. The relationship is love beginning as vague loneliness, this love develops into a longing for the opposite sex, feeling of solidarity with humans, and communing with nature or expressing sympathy for all living things. On the other hand, the mode of being-alone reaches to the idea of transcendence. In this context, transcendence is concern of ‘Dasein’ itself for one’s own self, and thus means bringing out the very conduct of ‘Dasein’, beyond self. That is transcendence to freedom and eternity. He achieved freedom by being-alone, It is a freedom that he experiences a state of ecstasy, which is the place where the self and the world encounter with spirituality. Also, he was absorbed in his poetry about overcoming the limit of being. Therefore, his being-alone is important in the sense that it decides the thematic direction in his poetry. Also it can be regarded as the endeavor for the perfection of self.