실비아 플라스의 시와 1980년대 한국 여성시 비교 연구

Abstract

In this article, I compared the poems of Sylvia Plath and those of the Korean women poets' of the 1980s. I analyzed the character of their poems and evaluated products' place of them in the history of women's poetry. Sylvia Plath and the Korean women poets of the 1980s had a similarity in their strong negation of patriarchism or absolute male power. Sylvia Plath revealed autobiographical elements and expressed love and hatred for her father completely. In comparison, Korean women poets presented a strong repulsion towards extremely violent paternal authority. 'The father' had an important meaning as the symbol of patriarchism and violent power in Korean women's poems of the 1980s. Plath and the Korean women poets of the 1980s were similar in their distinct self-awareness of their experiences as females and their femininity. In Sylvia Plath's poems, the power of her conflicted relationship with her mother evoked another pressure and a sense of crisis. By contrast the Korean women poets looked back cooly at the Korean mothers who had devoted themselves to patriarchism even though they had been sacrificed by it; they tried to find a new femininity to attain a free self. They showed not only their innovative thinking, but also freshness in their poetic expression. They used shocking language for expressing their dissatisfactions and rage about the oppression of women. Also they developed free and unique discourses which were a critique of the earlier forms. Sylvia Plath created moments of self-discovery by putting her internal voice in dramatic confessions. Korean women poets also expressed their keen realization about their confined language and invented the possibility of newlanguages. Sylvia Plath and the Korean women poets of the 1980s held a special position in each country's history of women's poetry by awakening to their own circumstances as women poets and expressing them openly. These poets developed a new history of women's poetry by revolting against patriarchism that suppressed women's consciousness and language.