이용악의 「평남관개시초」 고찰

Abstract

Lee Yong-ak lived in the era of sudden change of Japanese invasion, independence and the division of Korea. Through he recognized the suffering history and the poor presence of Korean people and he embodied this recognition in poems, he is appreciated as a poet who showed the directions of national literature. After he went to North Korea, he published “the poetry of Lee Yong-ak”. This poetry contains “a poem of Pyung-Nam irrigation” which deals with the great work of Pyung-Nam irrigation that was a milestone of the construction of a communism country. Especially, after going to North Korea, Lee Yong-ak intensely took an action in the period of “the wartime of National independence”(1950. 6~1953. 7) and “The recovery construction after the wartime and the construction of the foundation of communism”(1953. 7~1958. 8) and contributed to the literature policies and ideologies of each period. At that time, poetry contains the status of the sudden change era through a variety of artistic forms. Particularly, epic poetry greatly contributed to containing the presence of the concrete experiences in the era. After that, through changing into long and short epics, lylic epics, story poetry and ballad, epics provided the frame to reflect historic changes and the era’s requirements. It seems that Lee Yong-ak sincerely followed literature ideologies and policies which the communist party wanted to put into practice by emphasizing ‘the mind against foreign countries’ and ‘the priority of communism system through ‘Pyung-Nam irrigation poem’ and went along the way of national literature of social classism