김구용 시에 나타난 근대 공간성 연구 ─ 시집 『시(詩)』를 중심으로 ─

Abstract

The poet Kim Gu-young effectively symbolized the modernity principles of the Korean society based on industrial capitalism with narrative poetic forms and spatial representation. Especially the prose poems in his Poetry represent the space of Seoul that gave spurts to reconstruction and growth in the latter half of the 1950s after the end of the Korean War. This study set out to analyze some of his prose poems such as The Flowers of Dissonance 2, The Ideal of Dreams, and A Postmark and investigate the modern ideology that divided Seoul those days and its literary reflection in a layer called modern urban space. In the Poetry, spatial representations were divided into 1) the psychoneurosis space of confusion and destruction, 2) the alienation space of prostitution and imprisonment, and 3) the space of hybridity and exchange of equivalents to demonstrate the dynamic relations between the dominant authority of spatialization and existence in the 1950s. In the Poetry, the poet transposes the spatial organization method applied to the ruins after war with the landscape inside the subject. The works of the Poetry show that the important principles of creating and moving cities and urban life are the norms of modernity and that human existence and world views are influenced by space partition. The arrangement principles of modern space projected in the Poetry clearly reconstruct and show the close relations among history, culture, and physical elements.