金春洙 詩에 나타난 濕潤性 想像力 考察

Abstract

This article traced the wettability-imagination that appears in Kim Chun-su’s poetry based on his biography, starting from the problem that Kim’s attempts to explain poetry largely relied on the terms and theories suggested by the poet. Wettability is a property that allows a liquid to spread on a solid surface. In Kim’s poems, things are mainly expressed in a “wet” state. This water-based sense of wetness is related to weather phenomena and “Hallyeosudo,” a key poem, reveals his sea experiences. To analyze the sense of wetness and the wettability-imagination, this article borrowed Bachelard’s imagination theory of water and named the principle of composition of a poetic device that reveals a faint sense of connection and depression in Kim’s poems wettability-imagination. The concept of wettability-imagination has two implications and suggests follow-up research to reveal important aspects of Kim’s poetry. The first implication is that Kim created a channel to explain poetry besides the terms and theories planned by the poet. He pointed to the experience in Tongyeong, which connected his childhood and poetic imagination, and the (un)consciously emphasized the Sedagaya Police Station detention experience. The second implication is that the poet’s wettability-imagination was both an expression technique and a poetic subject used as an alibi to dilute desire in relationship and sexuality, creating a stance to avoid the problem of desire even though he continued to pursue the possibility of connection and communication. These findings would assist new research beyond the perspective of pure poetic expression or aestheticism in Kim Chun-su’s poetry.