구상의 『초토의 시』 연구－원본 시집 『초토의 시』를 중심으로－

Abstract

Ku Sang’s second collection of poems, Wasteland Poems published in 1956, is his signature work that testifies and contains about the war experiences of a national disaster and postwar realities through 15 series of poems. The verses in this book have their own independent content and format, discovering the strength and hope of human inner strength in a devastated world and configurate them as a Christian ethic and humanism. In this point Wasteland Poems is at the center of, not only the early poetry stages of Ku Sang but also the whole poetic world. In this article, we looked at Ku Sang’s Wasteland Poems from two perspectives. One is that 「Wasteland Poems」 is a representative work of the poet, and even though it’s getting attention as a major piece of work in the history of literature, it has been adapted several times so I have sorted out the details and the significance of the rewriting. The other is to divide the verses of 「Wasteland Poems」 into three large groups to examine what each of them means and further to look at how they form a semantic network. However, in order to keep close tabs on the intentions of the original work and the situation of the written era, an original critical approaching way was taken to Wasteland Poems, the collection published by Cheonggu Publishing Co. in 1956.