한국시가의 流民에 대한 시선과 시적 정의

Abstract

This article focuses on analysis of the migrants figuration and aims to explore its significance on Korean poetry from 18th century to the early 20th century in an aspect of poetic justice. First part of this study by particularly analyzing <Imgyetan>, <Kapminga>, and <Puksaegok> among premodern social critical lyrics and more closely examine the figuration of the migrants. These three works commonly describe horrors of the migrants in the result of the tyrannical politics and large scale natural disaster with realistic viewpoint. Authors of above pieces urge the recovery of the benevolent government as a solution of migrant issues. In the next place, focusing on the migrant poetries which extensively produced in the result of land plundering and deliverly. These poetries vividly describe the sorrow of Korean diaspora, people who unavoidably should leave the country after the failure of nation state construction, and Japanese colonization. The migrants are repressed and excluded beings from the nation and society as well. In this reason, poetic justice from the migrant poetries is a chance to reevaluate the required values in public life by empathizing and sympathizing suffered others. This resonance makes the significance of reading a classical Korean poetry for today.