고시조에 대한 백석의 산문, 그 형성 맥락에 대한 고찰

Abstract

This study started from the attention paid to ‘What Did You Feel About Love?’, which is presumed to be written by Baekseok, included in Vol. 4 of the literary magazine ‘Munwoo’ published by the preparatory course students of Keijo Imperial University. In the paper, there are 80 clustered gosijos with the theme of love. Baekseok did not simply enumerate the works but he introduced the sijo works he had come to know from the collections of poems according to the semantic unit set on his own. There was a controversy about the writer in that the work implies Baekseok started his literary career in the age of 16. Therefore, this study aims to shed a light on the controversy by looking into the contexts in which the work was created. From a close examination of the magazine, it was found that Kim Eok’s creative sijos were also included in Vol. 4 of ‘Munwoo’ and those sijos were similar to the contents of sijos included in Baekseok’s writings. In addition, several circumstances were confirmed in which Kim Eok and Baekseok had been related to each other around Osan Secondary School in Jeongju, Pyeongyang. Above all, Kim Eok wrote for ‘Youngdae,’ a magazine by literary people from Pyeongan-do Province in 1925 and the writing style and logic is similar to that of Baekseok’s proses, indicating that Baekseok was influenced by Kim Eok’s writing. In addition, a thorough examination on the general characteristics of gosijos found in the writing (‘What Did You Feel About Love?’) showed that Baekseok selected gosijos mainly form the printed collection ‘Daedongpunga’ and partially from other collections of poems. In particular, Baekseok extended his semantic network by explaining the multilayered aspects of love appearing in sijos as well as the consciousness of why love is discussed in sijo in his own comments and criticism. Therefore, the writing (‘What Did You Feel About Love?’) has its significance in that it is the case showing that Baekseok had formed literary nourishment through his literary experience with the aesthetics of classical literature during his teenagehood. It is judged that the writing has a literary significance as it is the case showing several aspects of how gosijos were accepted to and understood by the intellectuals during the 1920s. Therefore, an extensive study on the writing is necessary in the future.