윤석중 동시에 대한 재인식

Abstract

The characteristics of children's verses by Yun Seok-jung can be summarized with three words, cheerfulness, cities, and childhood. From the realistic perspective, however, those three core words have been used as the basis of criticism rather than the reference of virtue. Cheerfulness described by Yun has been understood as a way of giving up on the social reality or losing seriousness instead of expressing children's vitality and optimistic nature. The urban senses in his children's verses have also failed to be accepted as they are in the climate of children's verses that's accustomed to agricultural sentiments. The worlds of urban children depicted by him are often regarded as worlds distant from reality or results of turning one's back to the people's reality. But it's clear that the readers can detect the poet's sensitive poetic senses about the speech methods, types, and psychology of children by reading his works. The problem is that they have not received evaluations they deserve in Korea's community of children's literature, either. In the study, the investigator set out to reexamine the realistic criticisms of the poet in a critical approach and find his virtues ignored by the criticisms. When looking into his literature according to the three keywords of cities, childhood, and cheerfulness, I was able to confirm that his children's verses contain elements to communicate with today's children readers.