단국대학 시절, 신동엽이 만난 고구려와 동학- 신동엽 연구(11)

Abstract

Poet Shin Dong-yeop(1930~1969) studied two big histories when he was a student at Dankook University. First, it is very important that Kim Gu(金九, 1876~1949) chose the first private university created by independence movement figures. Dankook University, established by Jang Hyung(張炯, 1889~ 1964) and Jang Do Bin(張道斌, 1888~1963), who campaigned for independence to Shin Dong-yeop, who already had problems with left and right wings and anarchist ideas during the Jeonju high school, would have come to go through at least once. Second, Shin Dong-yeop meets the ideas of Daegyo, represented by Jang Hyeong, at Dankook University. Shin Dong-yeop may have learned continental imagination from Jang Hyeong’s poems. Third, Shin Dong-yeop traveled to places of the Donghak(東學) Peasant War during the Dankook Dynasty. There is a possibility that Jang Do-bin’s book on the Donghak Revolution may have been devoured. After that, Shin Dong-yeop studied Donghak thought and history such as “Donggyeong Daejeon(『東經大全』),” and studied for nearly 30 years to complete the epic “Geumgang.” Shin Dong-yeop experienced war when he was in Dankook University, and he could have learned grand religion from Jang Hyung, a former independence fighter who lived history and religion through life, not ideas, and learned the secrets of Goguryeo and Jang Do-bin. After the war, Shin Dong-yeop, a graduate of Dankook University, meets In Byeong-seon and begins a new start to open his eyes to new love. It was not until August 1953 that Dankook University returned to Sindang-dong, Seoul, and it was newly opened anew. Certain periods in a person’s life can have a big impact. The days of Dankook University were definitely an important period that gave poet Shin Dong-yup a new opportunity.