서정주․관광의 시선․타자의 점유: 『서(西)으로 가는 달처럼…』과 『산시(山詩)』의 경우

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to find out the implication and its boundary held in the global tour poetry of Seo, Jeong-Joo. Seo, Jeong-Joo had his first experience in traveling to different locations through his exploration of Gyeongju and brief stay in ‘Manchuria’ for seeking a job during the colonial period of Joseon in the 1930s. Those two locations were developed by the colonial policy of the Japanese rulers and were the land of restructured colony. Consequently, the first traveling to different location for Seo, Jeong-Joo was an act of significant influence for Japanese colonial tour and migration policies, rather than the curiosity on unfamiliar territory or individual inspiration for foreign sates. He published essay collection and poetry collection after traveling famous tourist attractions around the globe in cooperation of newspaper companies and corresponding to the government’s policy to advance its culture in the late 1970s. In the process, Seo, Jeong-Joo drew the collapsing materialistic civilization (West) and revitalization of spiritual culture (East) through his interests on heroes, art and woman. Because of these attributes, his writings of this period have the mixture of Orientalism that Korea was initiated as the main role for future culture and Occidentalism in emphasizing the needs of guideline and new enlightenment on the west. The poet concentrated on poems that voiced on famous mountains of the world in conjunction with the myths and story tales of those locations thereafter. These poems have the strength of not displaying the superiority relations of the west and east on its characteristics of fictional lyrics. However, it also contains the weakness of making these locations to be sacred places with his insight and attitude to sing his local base in ‘Jilmajae’. Lastly, he took a look at the value of his journey to Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China that had been banned to travel under the cold war system. The poet recorded the violent nature of the socialism system while inviting Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and others into the world of perpetuality in ‘Jilmajae’ for sacred presence. As the final result, the unconditional follow toward the sacred feature and perpetuality on art was shown to the final position to reach for his world journey of Seo, Jeong-Joo.