1960년대 한국시의 정동(情動)과 이미지의 정치학(1) －김수영의 경우－

Abstract

In Korea, there was a democratic revolution in 1960 and shortly after that revolution, people had to witness a coup led by Park Chung-hee in 1961. Later, he was officially chosen as a president in 1963’s election. It was a very strange upheaval of public mind. The very people who had not been tolerant to Syngman Rhee’s dictatorship, lately acknowledged Park’s martial rule in 1963’s election. This paper is to closely examine what was going on in public’s mind during that period by reading poetry written by Kim Soo-young, especially through the lens of ‘the affect’ of literature and politics of poetic images. In 1960s, Kim Soo-young’s main concern was ‘how to overcome the gap which took place between civil attitude and public desire.’ Moreover, he did not regard himself as an innocent subject that was little affected by a corrupt regime and society. On the contrary, he recognized he was also engaged in that kind of corruption, for he found that he was deeply absorbed in the desires of daily life. Consequently, in his poems he tried to find a new way to overcome the degenerated social morals and his petit bourgeois-like attitude at once. Finally, he could blaze a trail by his unique images represented in his poetry written in the middle of and late 1960s.