고백으로서의 역사, 역사로서의 고백 - 양명문의 전반기 시세계 연구 -

Abstract

This writing discovered not a few materials, such as Yang, Myung- mun's collection of poems, poetics, “War Diary”, comments on current events, and memoir, etc. during the first half of his life, empirically reconstituted his poetic world during the first half of life on the basis of the interview with his bereaved family, and explored its major characteristics. Poet Yang's starting point of his poetic world is difficult to clearly grasp because Hwasuwon, which was published in the late period of Japanese rule, was scattered to be lost, but this writing could confirm that his poetic world during his stay in North Korea disclosed lyrical, nationalist sentiments and even experiments on poetic drama through Songga(a song of praise) After coming down to Korea from the North in search of freedom of art, the Korean War he experienced as a war poet was a grave momentum for him to awake to the meaning of art existence in history and the times. In his poetic experiments made continuously in the form of ‘dramatic poetry’, or ‘symphonic poetry music’, his will for innovation of poetic climate in post-war world of poetry is clearly underlined. As for him, if a lyric poem should be a confessional style putting emphasis on an individual's internal expression, the epical dramatic poem available for performance is understood as the style having a more social, popular strength; through creation of both parts, the poet Yang explored the way for an individual narration to breath, together with the times. His poetic world like this during the first half of his life gives birth to the collection of poems Hwaseongin(a Martian) including his criticism of the times and prophetic sentiments, and Blue Legend which is strongly tinged with autobiographical, also mythical elements, and these individual collections of poem, which are hailed as unprecedented even in the postwar world of poems, are wrapped up in a clear paragraph in Iemokgubi(features), aggregating all poetic experiments and messages he had pursued. Yang, Myung-mun's poetic world failed to attract a big public attention because he was locked up in a frame of a defector poet from North Korea, or ‘Anti-communist Poet’ all this while; however, this writing thinks that it is quite appropriate poet Yang should be placed in a more important post in our history of modern poems even only with ideological individuality and poetic experiments.